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27 Sep, 7 tweets, 1 min read
🌹🗳 STATEMENT:

One thing is clear from today’s vote – Labour Party members are overwhelmingly in support of proportional representation.
After unprecedented support from local parties in backing motions calling for reform now we see that 80% of local party delegates backed reform on conference floor. This in itself is a historic victory for equal votes – and now the Labour Party leadership must listen.
We have won the argument with the Labour membership – both the debate and the result showed almost no support for the broken status quo.
But we can also see we have not yet won the argument elsewhere in our movement. Rank and file trade unionists play a key role in our campaign, but despite this most unions do not yet back reform.
The truth is, if the Leadership had engaged with this unifying policy as intensively as they pushed their own proposed rule changes, PR would now be Labour policy.
The Labour Party membership is united behind the drive to make votes count for all. It is unsustainable for any party to have policy at odds with the values of its members. Our campaign will continue.
We are determined Labour must go forward to the next General Election with a firm promise that it will support PR, replace our rotten electoral system and mend our broken democracy. 💥 🌹

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27 Sep
Caroline Osborne of Gosport CLP comes to the podium to move the PR motion! #Labour4PR
Caroline Osborne Vice chair of Gosport CLP and proud member of Unite

Proud to represent the 323 CLPs across the U.K. who have passed PR policy - and the over 150 CLPs who prioritised PR for debate
This is an unprecedented level of support for any issue -

We’re ALL here today with the same clear demand: a commitment to introduce PR for Westminster elections in Labour’s next manifesto
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26 Sep
💥 We’ve commissioned a new poll by @NCPoliticsUK, asking the public whether they support or oppose Proportional Representation:

Support - 52%
Don’t know - 31%
Oppose - 17%

10,047 UK adults, 2nd-17th August 2021, Online
@NCPoliticsUK The large sample size means we can unpack the results for different groups. Among every region and nation of the UK, supporters of PR outnumber opponents by 3 to 1.

By 2019 vote, 63% of Labour voters support PR, as well as 50% of Conservatives and 75% of Liberal Democrats.
Most of all, the results show that opposition to PR is limited to a small minority. Only 12% of Labour voters and 25% of Conservatives oppose PR.

This suggests there would be no electoral price for Labour to pay for backing PR.
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