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May 07, 2005

System bias fuels reform demands

The ubiquitous Lord Lipsey follows yesterday's appearance in the FT with another piece about his quotes in the Guardian.

The power of a peerage...

Perhaps the clearest illustration of the underlying logic of the current voting system is in the number of votes it takes to elect each party's MPs. On last night's results a Labour MP only needed 26,858 votes to get elected, compared with 44,241 votes for a Tory MP, and a staggering 98,484 for each Liberal Democrat MP.

Posted by pauldavies on May 07, 2005

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