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AV referendum

October 2017

  • Boris Johnson MP with the leave campaign bus during the EU referendum campaign.

    Are referendums the best way to shore up our feeble democracy?

    Letters: Michael Meadowcroft on the need for a fair electoral system; Keith Flett on extra-parliamentary activity; Jol Miskin on an educated electorate; Nigel Trow on a citizen parliament; and letters by Tony Wright, Howard Hilton and Ian East

September 2015

  • Michael Gove, Vince Cable, George Osborne and David Cameron, drinking a toast

    Vince Cable: ‘The Tories collectively could be appalling’

  • Vince Cable

    Vince Cable: ‘Historically, the coalition will be seen as a success’ – interview

June 2015

  • Union flag and EU flag

    David Cameron rules out 5 May date for EU referendum

    Prime minister bows to pressure from own party and opposition to avoid clash with Scottish and other devolved elections

August 2013

  • Steve Richards

    Referendum-talk is cheap. Campaigning's the hard part

    Steve Richards
    Steve Richards: Direct democracy is alien to our system. Which is why, as with AV, and now in Scotland, we can't seem to get it off the ground

May 2013

  • Steve Richards

    David Cameron should beware the referendum trap

    Steve Richards
    Steve Richards: History shows that referendums tend to ruin rather than unify political parties – and have little to do with genuine people power

July 2012

  • Mark Harper

    Mark Harper faces a tricky week

    Conservative party deputy to Nick Clegg faces his greatest challenge when the Lords reform bill goes before MPs

April 2012

  • A basket of 'No' votes after May's alternative vote referendum

    The Northerner
    A no vote for referendums

    They may sound democratic, but that's a myth. Michael Meadowcroft says that ploys such as next week's vote on mayors should have no place in UK politics

November 2011

  • Steve Hilton

    Wintour and Watt blog
    Rethink on managing coalition after Nick Clegg rejects No 10 report

    Nicholas Watt: Whitehall sources say coalition needs to enter less confrontational phase after row over Beecroft report on employment law

June 2011

  • Nick Clegg votes in the AV referendum

    Liberal Democrats start investigation into AV referendum defeat

    Party president orders inquiry into disastrous Yes campaign, which was described by staff as a 'living nightmare'

13 May 2011

  • A recovery plan for Labour

    Letters: Yet Labour was remarkably silent – at least until the final manifesto when it was too late – about the responsibilities of the rich and powerful

10 May 2011

  • Camden is not all middle-class liberals

  • David Cameron, who had admitted that the relationship between Tory and Lib Dem ministers will change

    Change in coalition relationship inevitable, says David Cameron

8 May 2011

  • Grist to mill for the chattering classes

  • They think it's all over – it may be now

7 May 2011

  • Miliband

    Ed Miliband calls on Lib Dem ministers to quit cabinet

    The Labour leader says disaffected Lib Dems should stand with him to oppose Tory policies

  • Observer comment cartoon
    Nick Clegg humiliated

    Chris Riddell

    Chris Riddell on the failure of the Yes campaign

    • Luvvies or lads. What a choice

      Victoria Coren

    • Northern Ireland's positive apathy

      Fionola Meredith

    • Andrew Brown's blog
      Why does the left hate Nick Clegg?

      Andrew Brown
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