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By using our voice in the media, developing in-depth research and policy, campaigning and influencing and making the case online we’ve led the charge for democratic reform in 2025. buff.ly/DtXzvSB
December 15, 2025 at 9:31 AM
By using our voice in the media, developing in-depth research and policy, campaigning and influencing and making the case online we’ve led the charge for democratic reform in 2025. buff.ly/DtXzvSB
Back in 2022, when Keir Starmer described the House of Lords as ‘indefensible’, he also proposed a solution: make it an elected chamber that better represents all four corners of this country. We could not agree more.
Latest peerages mean government has replaced the hereditary peers – before they’ve even left the Lords
Keir Starmer himself not long ago described the wholly unelected and grossly bloated House of Lords as ‘indefensible’. Nothing has changed since then so it was deeply disappointing t
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December 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Back in 2022, when Keir Starmer described the House of Lords as ‘indefensible’, he also proposed a solution: make it an elected chamber that better represents all four corners of this country. We could not agree more.
Our team have works with journalists to provide in-depth analysis, opinion pieces and interviews, to make the case for electoral reform and push vital democratic issues higher up the news agenda to increase public support. Find out more in our Annual Review
2025 at the ERS: Getting our message into the news
Each year we write an Annual Review which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy
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December 13, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Our team have works with journalists to provide in-depth analysis, opinion pieces and interviews, to make the case for electoral reform and push vital democratic issues higher up the news agenda to increase public support. Find out more in our Annual Review
First Past the Post has made our elections a high-stakes and wildly unpredictable gamble
Britain’s slot-machine politics
Voting is becoming a high-stakes, wildly unpredictable gamble
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December 12, 2025 at 9:31 AM
First Past the Post has made our elections a high-stakes and wildly unpredictable gamble
It’s not up to us to decide if the House of Lords is doing the right thing in delaying these bills. But it shouldn’t be up to the House of Lords either. Patronage and political appointments does not confer a right to decide which laws should govern us.
Peers told they risk ‘constitutional crisis’ after surprise vote to continue blocking employment rights bill – UK politics live
Government lost Lords vote on employment rights bill by 24 votes, just hours after the creation of 25 new Labour peers
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December 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
It’s not up to us to decide if the House of Lords is doing the right thing in delaying these bills. But it shouldn’t be up to the House of Lords either. Patronage and political appointments does not confer a right to decide which laws should govern us.
With the peerages announced today, the Prime Minister has now added more peers than they are removing by scraping the 92 hereditary peers. We need a smaller, elected second chamber where the public, not politicians, decide who joins and who leaves. buff.ly/sxfoF5s
Add your name: Tell the PM - No New Lords!
Enough is enough. We need to put a complete halt to new appointments until the house has been properly reformed.
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December 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
With the peerages announced today, the Prime Minister has now added more peers than they are removing by scraping the 92 hereditary peers. We need a smaller, elected second chamber where the public, not politicians, decide who joins and who leaves. buff.ly/sxfoF5s
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Welcome to slot-machine Britain! Our cover this week is on First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Welcome to slot-machine Britain! Our cover this week is on First Past the Post, the voting system that turns multi-party politics into a lottery.
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
Featuring our new modelling of British elections: www.economist.com/interactive/...
It's the House of Lords' job to scrutinise laws, but we need to be able to hold them to account for their decisions.
Peers’ delay of assisted dying bill ‘could lead to constitutional crisis’
Opponents are playing with fire with 1,100 amendments, critics say, as filibuster tactics to defeat Kim Leadbeater’s law ‘threaten the upper chamber’s future’
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December 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
It's the House of Lords' job to scrutinise laws, but we need to be able to hold them to account for their decisions.
A poll earlier in the year found that 60% of people support a cap on political donations. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A poll earlier in the year found that 60% of people support a cap on political donations. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
The Guardian’s analysis has found that one in 10 peers were paid for political advice in the 2019 to 2024 parliament. buff.ly/fIca6aK
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The Guardian’s analysis has found that one in 10 peers were paid for political advice in the 2019 to 2024 parliament. buff.ly/fIca6aK
Once the concern was wealthy individuals influencing policy, now the ultra wealthy are in the position to be the sole funder of a political movement.
We can’t let them view political parties like a yacht or island to add to their collection. We need to put a cap on their power.
We can’t let them view political parties like a yacht or island to add to their collection. We need to put a cap on their power.
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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December 7, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Once the concern was wealthy individuals influencing policy, now the ultra wealthy are in the position to be the sole funder of a political movement.
We can’t let them view political parties like a yacht or island to add to their collection. We need to put a cap on their power.
We can’t let them view political parties like a yacht or island to add to their collection. We need to put a cap on their power.
Small changes in the vote, wildly different outcomes. That's life under First Past the Post
Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system
Similar results, our data analysis shows, can yield strikingly different outcomes
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December 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Small changes in the vote, wildly different outcomes. That's life under First Past the Post
A million pounds here, a few hundred thousand there. Life changing sums for most people. But when it comes to political donations, these are the amounts people are throwing around. Do you think that is OK? buff.ly/1yqUrOP
December 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A million pounds here, a few hundred thousand there. Life changing sums for most people. But when it comes to political donations, these are the amounts people are throwing around. Do you think that is OK? buff.ly/1yqUrOP
The government must put a donation cap in the Elections Bill
This record-breaking donation shows how dependent our parties have become on a super-rich few. It reinforces the belief that money talks loudest in the corridors of power.
The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
The Government promised to protect democracy. It's time to introduce a cap on political donations.
www.ft.com/content/db73...
Reform UK gets record £9mn donation from Christopher Harborne
Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than both Labour and the Conservatives
www.ft.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The government must put a donation cap in the Elections Bill
Just today, Reform UK were given £9,000,000, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor. In recent years, donations of over a million pounds have become common place across the political spectrum - it's time for a cap on donations buff.ly/OrXZVw9
We need a donation cap, but how much should it be?
In the UK today, there is still no legal limit on how much a single donor can give to a political party each year. That simple fact shapes our politics in profound ways. When unlimited m
electoral-reform.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Just today, Reform UK were given £9,000,000, their largest single donation ever, and the largest donation ever from a living donor. In recent years, donations of over a million pounds have become common place across the political spectrum - it's time for a cap on donations buff.ly/OrXZVw9
Each year we write an Annual Review which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy fit for the 21st Century.
2025 at the ERS: Our year campaigning for change
Each year we write an Annual Review which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy
buff.ly
December 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Each year we write an Annual Review which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy fit for the 21st Century.
The House of Lords is already bursting at the seams with political appointees. Rather than 'rebalancing' the second-largest parliamentary chamber in the world (after China), the government needs to get on with creating an elected chamber. buff.ly/VurmGSM
Keir Starmer expected to award 25 new Labour peerages
Exclusive: Former union bosses and Labour staffers on list as prime minister aims to balance chamber
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The House of Lords is already bursting at the seams with political appointees. Rather than 'rebalancing' the second-largest parliamentary chamber in the world (after China), the government needs to get on with creating an elected chamber. buff.ly/VurmGSM
"UK ministers aim to ban cryptocurrency political donations over anonymity risks" buff.ly/EyJNM2E
UK ministers aim to ban cryptocurrency political donations over anonymity risks
Crackdown, which will be blow to Nigel Farage’s Reform party, not likely to be ready for elections bill in new year
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"UK ministers aim to ban cryptocurrency political donations over anonymity risks" buff.ly/EyJNM2E
Fairness in politics doesn’t happen by accident. A cap on donations would help ensure no single donor can shape our democracy in their own image. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Fairness in politics doesn’t happen by accident. A cap on donations would help ensure no single donor can shape our democracy in their own image. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
The rules and culture of the House of Lords provide easy opportunities for peers to use their privileged positions for private gain. buff.ly/jztKsqg
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
The rules and culture of the House of Lords provide easy opportunities for peers to use their privileged positions for private gain. buff.ly/jztKsqg
The government are working on a new law about our elections, and we want to see donation caps in it. Do you? buff.ly/1yqUrOP
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
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December 1, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The government are working on a new law about our elections, and we want to see donation caps in it. Do you? buff.ly/1yqUrOP
There is no check on their contributions, or lack of; no democratic accountability to boot them out for poor performance. buff.ly/jztKsqg
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
There is no check on their contributions, or lack of; no democratic accountability to boot them out for poor performance. buff.ly/jztKsqg
People donate money to our politicians because they think it’s a good investment. Either for their business interests or to further their idea of what the country should be like.
Those are not things you should be able to buy in a democracy.
Those are not things you should be able to buy in a democracy.
Sign now to demand an end to big money in politics
It takes 30 seconds
buff.ly
November 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
People donate money to our politicians because they think it’s a good investment. Either for their business interests or to further their idea of what the country should be like.
Those are not things you should be able to buy in a democracy.
Those are not things you should be able to buy in a democracy.
The House of Lords is a rolling lobbying scandal
Lords rules and culture make it easy for peers to abuse privileged position
Unreformed system means peers can profit by taking outside roles based on insider knowledge and access
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November 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
The House of Lords is a rolling lobbying scandal
Building connections with politicians is incredibly important in mobilising change.
See what we've been working on this year in this year's Annual Review: electoral-reform.org.uk/2025-at-the-...
See what we've been working on this year in this year's Annual Review: electoral-reform.org.uk/2025-at-the-...
2025 at the ERS: Our work behind the scenes
Each year we write an Annual Review which looks back at our achievements across the last 12 months, and explains how our team have campaigned towards securing our vision for a democracy
electoral-reform.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Building connections with politicians is incredibly important in mobilising change.
See what we've been working on this year in this year's Annual Review: electoral-reform.org.uk/2025-at-the-...
See what we've been working on this year in this year's Annual Review: electoral-reform.org.uk/2025-at-the-...