Reminder! Join Lord Newby for an Elections Bill update tomorrow
Reminder! Join Lord Newby for an Elections Bill update tomorrow
Reminder! Join Lord Newby for an Elections Bill update tomorrow
Our online Spring Conference saw two well-attended, information-filled fringe meetings.
Following a thorough, motivating zoom meeting with Lord Newby, our Leader in the Lords, on March 15, the fight against the anti-democratic Elections Bill is still very much on!
Liberal Democrat peer, Lord Chris Rennard, has written a 'where we are' report on the passage of the Elections Bill through the Lords. We've of course been supporting our Lords' opposition to the bill - and there will be at least one more round of lobbying coming up in late April. Click here to read the article.
Elections Bill - the fight is still on Thank you to everyone who has backed our anti-Elections Bill campaign by lobbying MPs and peers at key stages of the bill's passage through Parliament.
Many of us have been shocked by how the current government has been able to remove fundamental protections and expand undemocratic measures (refugees being deemed 'illegal', the right to protest taken away, the independence of the electoral committee hollowed out and FPTP being expanded further to future Mayoral elections).