Gordon Brown to push for new voting system
Gordon Brown will try and convince his Cabinet that Labour should agree to changing Britain’s voting system for MPs in a bid to restore public trust after the expenses scandal.
By Andrew Porter, Political Editor (Telegraph.co.uk)
Published: 7:48PM GMT 01 Feb 2010
He wants to commit to a referendum soon after the next election in which voters would decide whether MPs should still be returned to Westminster by the first-past-the-post system.
Instead, it is proposed that MPs would in future be elected by an “alternative vote” system. The supporters of that system say it would mean that each MP would have to get at least 50 per cent support from voters before he is declared the winner. Read more: