Cabinet will discuss electoral reform tomorrow

By William Green on Feb 1, 10 09:13 PM

Nick Brown, North East Minister and Chief Whip, has confirmed electoral reform will be discussed at today's Cabinet.

"The Cabinet tomorrow will consider a proposal to legislative for a referendum on AV. It is a long established policy of the Labour party to make no changes to the Westminster voting system without asking the British people first.

"The change that is proposed is AV. This means you could rank the candidates you wanted to vote for in order."

The Newcastle MP said the system would give people more choice, although any change would not come in until the next general election - and only if the public voted for it in a referendum.

"The proposals preserves the constituency link, but at the same time affords voters a better range of choices," said Mr Brown.

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