Archive for March, 2011

If the Lib Dems lose the referendum on the Alternative Vote (AV) will the coalition Government fall?

25 March 2011

Liberal David Lloyd George & Tory Andrew Bonar Law

A referendum will be held on Thursday 5 May 2011 on whether to change the system for electing MPs in general elections.  The referendum will ask the public whether they want to replace the existing first-past-the-post system for electing MPs to Westminster with a method known as the Alternative Vote (AV). Critics of the current [...]

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