Alternative Vote

Cameron attacks alternative vote plan

David Cameron launched a fresh broadside against reform of the voting system today, insisting the proposed Alternative Vote (AV) system was unfair, undemocratic and obscure.

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Baroness Warsi under fire for invoking BNP

Thursday, 31 March 2011

Andrew Grice: Calls for removal of Conservative Party chairman after anti-AV speech.

Steve Richards: The Lib Dems irrelevant? Far from it

Thursday, 31 March 2011

In important ways, the Tories' partners have been a benevolent force - and Cameron has given them space to exercise influence

The referendum campaign on voting reform has begun

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Leading article: Apathy is an understandable reaction but it is a misguided one.

After years of waiting, reform campaign reaches for its place in history

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Andrew Grice: Campaigning for the historic referendum on voting reform burst into life yesterday as Ed Miliband joined Liberal Democrats and Greens in a cross-party push for a Yes vote.

AV system 'would give fascists more power'

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

A switch to the Alternative Vote for Westminster elections would give more power to fascists, Conservative co-chairman Baroness Warsi warned today.

So who's behind the AV PR campaigns?

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Advertising's influence over political campaigns hasn't been in doubt since Saatchi & Saatchi's brilliant "Labour Isn't Working" posters, which delivered the 1979 election to Margaret Thatcher.

Two weeks to ensure you have a say on AV

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

People encouraged to check whether they are eligible to vote in a possible major change to electoral system.

AV poll 'not a referendum on Nick Clegg'

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Ed Miliband today urged people not to make the forthcoming referendum on voting reform for Westminster elections a referendum on Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

Tensions mount in Coalition over 'gutter politics' of anti-AV Tories

Monday, 28 March 2011

Cabinet tensions over the electoral reform referendum burst into the open last night after a senior Liberal Democrat minister challenged the Conservative Party chairman to disown the "scaremongering" and "gutter politics" of the "no" campaign. Chris Huhne tore into its claim – reinforced in an advertising campaign – that a "yes" result in the poll on 5 May over replacing the first-past-the-post system with the alternative vote (AV) would cost Britain £250m.

Coalition 'will survive AV vote'

Sunday, 27 March 2011

Business Secretary Vince Cable said today he was "pretty sure" the coalition Government would survive, even if the Liberal Democrats fail to secure reform of the voting system for Westminster elections.

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