The Defending Democracy Taskforce needs to move further and faster to protect the UK from foreign interference.

We can never be invulnerable, but swift action can ensure the UK is better prepared.

See our recommendations 👇
leftfootforward.org/2024/04/the-de…

Lively exchange at the International Centre for Sustainability International Centre for Sustainability with @pravarpetkar and Peter Emerson of de Borda Institute about the failings of voting systems in the United Kingdom and India.

And broad agreement that democracy in both countries is under some pressure.

MP Debbie Abrahams MP spoke on “Citizens’ Assemblies”today. Here is her excellent Speech [begins 11:00am ],the response shows how much we still have to do if citizens are to regain trust in politics,and Govt&MP’s are to be meaningful partners with them
parliamentlive.tv/Search?Keyword…

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As it stands, 4 MILLION young people will be excluded from voting at the next election.

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Nice to see our report for ⁦Compass⁩ and ⁦Unlock Democracy⁩ cited in this great ⁦The Guardian⁩ editorial. Punchline:

“These are big changes, but local government is in big trouble”. ⁦⁦⁦Randeep Ramesh⁩ ⁦Arianna Giovannini⁩ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

For devolution to work, decision-making and revenue-raising powers have to be taken away from Whitehall and local people given a much larger role in setting their own priorities.

Read more here in ‘Power to the People’: compassonline.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

Whitehall has been snatching powers and funding away from local government for decades.

But Whitehall doesn’t always know best.

Our new report charts a way forward to restore power to local communities 👇

unlockdemocracy.org.uk/resources-rese…

Local government needs a stabler funding model as well as more revenue raising powers.

But no one devolution model can work everywhere – we need true localism.

Our new report with Compass written by Arianna Giovannini & Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! covered in LGC.
lgcplus.com/politics/devol…

This should be sounding alarm bells across Whitehall.

Voter ID is a costly, unnecessary and discriminatory mistake - it is time to pull the plug before many more eligible voters are robbed of their right.

The sudden drop in All Party Parliamentary Groups is welcome.

There were too many of them, and little oversight of the activities of some of them.

But new shadow organisations mustn't emerge to replace them.

JRCT advertising for several important roles to make decisions about funding work on Power and Accountability

'Power to the People': our new report published with Compass and written by Arianna Giovannini & Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky! offers a timely challenge to Westminster:

If the parties believe in levelling up, will they act on its recommendations?

Read the report here ➡️ bit.ly/4aty0gb

Excellent report on English local devolution from Compass and Unlock Democracy by Arianna Giovannini and Jonathan Davies now on Mastodon, Threads and BSky!. Pleased to see endorsement of many recommendations by Society of Labour Lawyers
compassonline.org.uk/publications/p…

Our new paper published with Unlock Democracy explores the case for radical devolution and how we can create a new comprehensive, coherent and irreversible plan for reform.

Read the report here: compassonline.org.uk/publications/p…

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