Vince talks to Voice Part 1: Open primaries
Twenty minutes after Vince finished speaking yesterday, I was sitting in a room with him, his wife Rachel Smith eating delicious egg sandwiches. We only had a few minutes to chat, but we covered a...
View ArticleOpinion: Forget open primaries, and go for STV instead
During the debate on MPs’ expenses at the Lib Dem conference recently, one of the speakers, Michael Meadowcroft, suggested that instead of having open primaries as a way of restoring trust in the...
View ArticleGovernment scraps plan to fund primaries for Westminster candidate selections
Michael Crick has the scoop about the ending of plans to fund open primaries: A very senior Cabinet minister has told me that the Coalition has now scrapped its radical plans to pay for primary...
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Opinion: The Lib Dems should make open primaries a coalition demand
The Liberal Democrats are likely to make proportional representation for local government elections a red line in 2015 coalition negotiations. Needless to say, for any liberal this is a thoroughly good...
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