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If Blair had accepted the recommendations of the Jenkins Report, rather than kicking it into the long grass, the country could look so so different now.
We are committed to a referendum on the voting system for the House of Commons. An independent commission on voting systems will be appointed early to recommend a proportional alternative to the first-past-the-post system.
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It makes me a bit sad to say so, but I think Labour won't win a majority ever again - no matter who is leader.
There is now far too much tension between the metropolitan and red wall wings for either side to coalesce around any leader sufficiently enough to win a majority under FPTP - in a landscape where Scotland is lost and not coming back, and where the ruling Conservative party are - economically at least - pretty much Brownite.
It will be painful but Labour needs to split - properly - not in the half arsed Change UK way - and allow the radical wing to do its own thing, but remain on friendly enough terms with the other wing for an electoral pact in such constituencies as necessary in order to get a majority.