UNIONS and campaigners for democracy are launching a week of action today to encourage young people to register to vote.
Bite the Ballot was launched in 2010 amid fears that young people were becoming more and more disillusioned with electoral politics, believing the leading parties offered more of the same.
Today an estimated 10 million people who are entitled to vote are not registered to do so, and proposed Tory changes to the electoral registration system are expected to increase that number.
With a political crisis engulfing the Labour Party, the case for PR is back on the agenda. TONY BURKE argues trade unions must now engage on changes to our voting system
Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT


