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THE Tories’ Elections Bill poses a “serious threat” to the fairness of all future votes in Britain, a former electoral commissioner has warned.
Writing for political website openDemocracy, Professor David Howarth, electoral commissioner between 2010 and 2018, said that he was appalled by the government’s plan to reduce the independence of the watchdog.
Ministers face mounting pressure to drop the proposed legislation, set to return to Parliament this week, as an increasing number of organisations and figures condemn it as a “power grab.”
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
