Pros and cons of proportional representation

Could a change of voting system heal the UK’s polarised politics?

A polling station during the June 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election
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Keir Starmer has been accused of acting like a “feudal monarchy” after the Labour leader indicated he would not put a pledge for electoral reform in the party’s next election manifesto.

Labour members overwhelmingly backed a motion at the party conference in Liverpool to replace the current first-past-the-post system with proportional representation (PR).

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