{"id":786330,"date":"2026-09-29T12:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786330\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:10:12","slug":"pr-cant-come-soon-enough-for-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/786330\/","title":{"rendered":"PR can\u2019t come soon enough for UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaigners have welcomed reports that Andy Burnham is set to announce plans for electoral reform in his Labour Party conference speech.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12196\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/shutterstock_2476456813-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1706\" height=\"961\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Reports suggest that Prime Minister Andy Burnham is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2026\/sep\/29\/andy-burnham-push-ahead-electoral-reform-plans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expected to announce plans for electoral reform<\/a> in his Labour Party conference speech later today. Campaigners have highlighted that \u201cequal votes for the whole of the UK can\u2019t come soon enough\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cary Mitchell, Executive Director of Strategy at Best for Britain, which campaigns to strengthen the UK\u2019s democracy, said:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery vote should count, and in our fragmented political landscape, proportional representation is the tool we need to become a fully functioning liberal democracy \u2013 with just the UK and Belarus currently clinging to first past the post among European countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLabour has long championed equality, and now finally backs democratic equality too. It was a Labour government that introduced PR for voting in the devolved nations and it\u2019s right that they introduce it for Westminster elections too. Equal votes for the whole of the UK can\u2019t come soon enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners have welcomed reports that Andy Burnham is set to announce plans for electoral reform in his Labour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":786331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-786330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/786331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}