Electoral reform: is it in the national interest?

In the first of a series of workshops addressing the question of national interest in the wake of the end of globalisation, Professor Peter Ramsay and Dr Richard Johnson will discuss whether or not electoral reform is in the national interest followed by questions and comments from workshop participants.

Opinion polls now indicate a highly fragmented electorate in the UK. Five parties are polling in double figures and nationalist parties and independents are polling well in particular regions and localities. With the breakdown of the two-party system, and the possibility of a government formed by a new party, Reform, after the next election, would proportional representation lead to better government, more of the same or political paralysis?

Speaker:

Richard Johnson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London.

You can read his policy brief on First Past the Post here:

https://www.qmul.ac.uk/mei/media/mei/qm-policy-hub/briefs/Queen-Mary-Policy-Brief—Is-First-Past-the-Post-Undemocratic.pdf

Chair: 

Peter Ramsay is Professor of Law at LSE Law School. You can read an article on proportional representation by him here.

https://thenorthernstar.online/2024/07/29/why-britain-needs-pr/

This event is open to the public and will operate on a first-come, first-served basis.