The Prime Minister has spent years advocating for a fairer voting system. Now it looks like he’s on a path that could make that dream impossible to achieve.

Péter Magyar is inheriting the ruins of a democracy Orbán spent sixteen years hollowing out. Will Britain learn Hungary's lesson the easy way or learn our own the hard way?

US president says on social media he agreed to suspend attack for two weeks, subject to Iran opening the strait of Hormuz, ahead of self-imposed deadline

Nick Timothy's attack on Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square was a calculated audition - and the whole party showed up to back him.

Millions of votes don't count under First Past the Post. Sign the petition for an independent National Commission on Electoral Reform to review how Britain elects its MPs.

Plaudits from Robinson should be a flashing red light on any government's dashboard.

The former Labour peer warns that Britain’s democratic crisis is rooted in a collapse of trust – and in the stories politicians tell to exploit it

One criminal act should not indict a whole community.

Inside his Manchester kingdom, Labour’s prince across the water outlines his radical blueprint

The spread of hate speech on social media can harm people and lead to real-life violence. Here’s all you need to know about online hate.

The APPG for Fair Elections first called on the government to establish a ‘National Commission on Electoral Reform’ last November, in the wake of t...

As a former civil servant, I can tell you Reform are as ready for government as Lee Anderson is to be lead dancer at the Royal Ballet.

Former home secretary praises Keir Starmer’s success on world stage and says PM can win over sceptical UK public

Peers no longer have to declare non-financial interests - a requirement that has previously caught out members of the House of Lords including ex-England cricketer Lord Botham and economic historian L...

Fabian Society

Why chasing cheap headlines left Farage embarrassed and angry, and confirmed his unfitness for high office.

'I didn’t come into politics to watch our democracy auctioned off to the highest bidder.'

Giving 16-year-olds the vote is good, not least to stop the rightward lurch, but real change would mean scrapping first past the post, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee