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Voices: Andy Burnham wants to change the voting system – and it could well happen

A change to a proportional system is very possible after the next election – there ought to be a debate about which system it should be, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK · Aug 22

‘Prolier-than-thou!’ Burnham accused of ‘desperate’ attempt to play up working class roots by novelist

THE TALK SHOW: Robert Harris tells The Independent’s editor-in-chief Geordie Greig that the Labour prime minister’s ‘desire to be liked’ risks making him look ‘facile and glib’

The Independent UK · Aug 19

‘Pico’ Lopes and Cape Verde give Spain’s boys one hell of a neutralising

In today’s Football Daily: the World Cup has some new history boys to celebrate

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16

The Guardian view on a cabinet resignation: Labour’s leadership crisis is really an identity crisis

Editorial: The prospect of a contest exposes a deeper truth: the party’s problems go far beyond Keir Starmer

The Guardian - UK · May 14

Sir Hayden Phillips

Senior civil servant regarded as the ‘mandarin’s mandarin’ who worked in the Home Office, the Cabinet Office, the Treasury and at the European Commission

The Guardian - UK · Apr 21

Lord Taverne obituary

Ousted Labour MP who had a famous byelection win against his old party in 1973 and later joined the SDP

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2025

Will Nigel Farage and Reform UK kill off the Tories? Don’t be so ridiculous

History proves byelections to be futile polls on leaders. If I were Farage, I would apply for the Tory whip and capture the party from within, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK · May 9, 2025

The Gang of Three review – inside an old boys’ club of Labour intrigue

Roy Jenkins, Denis Healey and Anthony Crosland debate among themselves in Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky’s look at the big beasts of 70s Westminster

The Guardian - UK · May 7, 2025

OPINION - Nigel Farage, Mike Amesbury and the domino effect: how Runcorn could change British politics

It was a by-election that caused a political earthquake. In 1981, Shirley Williams changed the temperature in Westminster when the new Social Democratic Party triumphed in the once true blue seat of Crosby. Months before, her fellow Gang of Four member Roy Jenkins had come tantalisingly close to winning a…

Evening Standard · Feb 27, 2025

Assisted dying: why this parliamentary process is the worst way to consider such an important issue

I have no doubt that some will claim Friday’s debate on the terminally ill adults (end of life) bill was “parliament at its best” – it wasn’t. While the bill cleared its second reading with a vote of 330 to 275, it is clear that this entire process is the…

The Conversation · Nov 29, 2024