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Tuesday 28 June

Electoral reform 'would hold back BNP and give Labour fifth term'

Chris Huhne: Stop all this tilting at windmills


Friday 24 June

Jack Straw: Those who demand PR must face the truth


Thursday 23 June

PR voting would have left Blair in coalition


Wednesday 15 June

The proof: Vote reform will boost turnout

Fifty years of decline

38,000 join the campaign

Pippa Norris: How to make 'wasted votes' count


Thursday 9 June

Labour clamps down on politicians who speak out for electoral reform


Wednesday 8 June

Labour will be defeated without PR, says ex-MP


Tuesday 7 June

'Transition to PR system is inevitable - and it has begun'


Saturday 4 June

Lack of respect for MPs is blamed on first-past-the-post

Leading article: A matter of respect


Friday 3 June

MPs flock to join all-party campaign for electoral reform

33,421 and counting: clamour for change grows

Greg Dyke: Our jaded political system needs reform


Thursday 2 June

Labour 'will embrace vote reform within ten years'

32,000 readers sign up for change


Monday 30 May

Olympic vote boosts call for reform

Andreas Whittam Smith: A dose of cold reality from history


Saturday 28 May

Ashdown backs vote reform campaign

Critic owes career to 'first-past-the-post'

28,425 responses ... and still counting

Leading article: He would say that, wouldn't he?


Friday 27 May

Minister appears to show support for poll reform


Thursday 26 May

Dear Mr Blair: Come clean over vote reform

Kennedy: PM dodging 'serious debate' on vote reform

24,417 and counting...

Sean O'Grady: Blair's tactics with Ashdown became a shoddy business

Leading article: Mr Blair must rediscover his appetite for modernisation


Wednesday 25 May

'Sceptical' Prescott made head of committee on PR


Tuesday 24 May

Campaign forces Labour and Tories on to the defensive

David Puttnam: We should start the reform of Parliament now


Monday 23 May

Hewitt breaks ranks in call to improve voting system


Sunday 22 May

Hoon hints at voting reform


Saturday 21 May

Backlash after Falconer slates reform push

How to get a limited edition Katharine Hamnett T-shirt

4,115 names in 24 hours, and counting


Friday 20 May

Labour at bottom of European league on share of votes

So, do you support a change to the way Britain votes?


Thursday 19 May

Leading article: Electoral reform: make your voice heard

John Denham: Without change, progressives fight each other


Tuesday 17 May

62 per cent disagree with Blair on electoral reform

John Curtice: Why the debate on PR is only just beginning

Letters: Voting reform and others


Monday 16 May

Andreas Whittam Smith: One or two reforms won't fix our democracy

Letters: Voting reform and others


Saturday 14 May

Blair's friendly peers make Labour biggest party in Lords for first time

Falconer echoes PM: 'There's no mood for electoral reform'

Banks joins the establishment club

House of Lords: The coming debate

Letters: Voting reform and others

Leading article: A real democracy needs a system of proportional representation


Friday 13 May

MPs demand parliamentary inquiry into voting reform

David Lipsey: Why the Tories should support electoral reform

Frank Field: Fiddling around yet again with the Lords is a diversion

Letters: Voters get result only a few wanted


Thursday 12 May

100 Labour MPs back vote reform

Steve Richards: They may not realise it now, but a fairer voting system could be in Labour's interest

Letters: Undemocratic voting systems


Wednesday 11 May

The public outcry: 'Give us back our democracy'

Kennedy calls on Blair to 'pick up the phone' for talks on fairer voting system

Leading article: A more accountable system of government


Tuesday 10 May

Electoral reform: Why it's time for change

System failure: all voters are equal, but some are more equal than others

While Britain lectures the world on democracy, others put it into practice

Leading article: A strategy to revive an outdated democracy

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