David Herdson asks: “How many Tories will vote Yes?”
Might AV work to their advantage? Politics often boils down to a mixture of high principle and low expediency or interest. The debate on voting reform has long been a classic example of the sort. It is hardly coincidental that all three main parties have produced principled arguments that just happen to support a voting system that is particularly favourable to them. One 1997 election promise that Labour were open about not keeping was their proposed referendum on voting reform….