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22 May 2012

Peter Facey is director of Unlock Democracy

Interview: Peter Facey and the long game of Lords reform

26 Mar 2012

Party funding reform unlikely despite the cash-for-access scandal

Why Britain lags behind the world on party-funding

25 Mar 2012

No prospect for real reform - in the short-term, at least

Party funding: Reasons to be miserable

20 Mar 2012

The Queen receives the loyal addresses from the Lords and Commons

Should the Queen block NHS reforms?

16 Mar 2012

Pressure on govt to hurry up with police and crime commissioner election plans

Ministers begged not to skimp on police commissioner elections

12 Mar 2012

A huge setback for backbenchers

A power grab against parliament by the government's 'forces of darkness'

8 Mar 2012

Michael Moore on the warpath again

Nationalist 'barriers' delaying referendum

Electoral Commission wants a fair, neutral referendum - but will the governments give it one?

Here's a bright idea: an independent Scottish independence referendum

6 Mar 2012

Epetitions with over 100k signatures could get debated

Are epetitions making disengagement worse?

1 Mar 2012

Those voter registration details are in there somewhere

Data-matching: Electoral Commission throws a spanner in the database

27 Feb 2012

Round and round in circles...

Dizzying Lords reform debate won't end prettily

14 Feb 2012

Financial privilege - when it comes to money, the Commons holds the power

More light than heat in financial privilege row

13 Feb 2012

Benefit cap resistance likely to be dampened through nine-month grace period

Welfare reform: Don't expect much fight from the Lords

9 Feb 2012

Clerks in both Houses operate by the book

It's not necessarily game over for welfare reform resistance, after all

1 Feb 2012

Clegg gave evidence to the Lords constitution committee this morning

Another voter registration retreat in the offing?

Nick Clegg in confrontational mode over Scottish independence

Clegg taunts 'cowardly' SNP over independence referendum

26 Jan 2012

Time to reform the House of Lords?

politics.co.uk podcast: The perils of Lords reform

Mark Harper, the Conservative minister for political and constitutional reform, is tasked with achieving the hardest reform of them all

Interview: Mark Harper's Lords reform challenge

Minister ready to use Parliament Act to push through Lords reform

Tory grumblers told to fall in line over Lords reform

25 Jan 2012

Unless law is changed, history could repeat itself in 2015

History repeating: Voters could be turned away in 2015

24 Jan 2012

Don't panic! MPs needn't worry about recall proposals, US expert says

Analysis: Why recall proposals shouldn't trouble MPs

19 Jan 2012

Do her views need representing in parliament?

Giving the unborn their say

Red mist over Westminster? Tory backbenchers want recall of MPs to go further

Tory MPs pour scorn on coalition's 'fake' recall proposals

18 Jan 2012

Should Scottish MPs get to vote in England-only matters?

Coalition won't back down over independence referendum talks

16 Jan 2012

London's buttoned-up approach risks alienating Scottish voters

London ready to challenge SNP's referendum

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