{"id":8543,"date":"2024-06-19T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/three-quarters-of-the-public-say-westminster-is-not-working-well\/"},"modified":"2024-06-19T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-19T11:11:00","slug":"three-quarters-of-the-public-say-westminster-is-not-working-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/three-quarters-of-the-public-say-westminster-is-not-working-well\/","title":{"rendered":"Three quarters of the public say Westminster is not working well"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/westminster_houses_of_parliament_AdobeStock_434797520_24-jpeg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49985\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three quarters of the public say that Westminster needs to improve, new polling has found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A poll of 2,226 people, conducted by Savanta on behalf of the Electoral Reform Society, found 76% feel that politics needs to improve significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That figure is made up of 48% of respondents who said that politics needs \u2018a great deal of improvement\u2019 and 28% who said it could \u2018be improved quite a lot\u2019. Only 4% of respondents said politics currently needed no improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While Conservative voters are less likely to say politics needs improvement, a majority (58%) of those still want to see change in the way politics is conducted. Meanwhile, the overwhelming majority of those intending to vote for other parties, including Labour 78%, the Liberal Democrats 72% and Reform UK 96%, say politics in the UK needs a great deal or quite a lot of improvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The poll findings come just a week after a major study by the National Centre for Social Research found more people \u2018than ever before\u2019 \u2018almost never\u2019 trust the British government of any party to place the needs of the nation above the needs of their own political party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report concluded that: \u2018All in all, it appears that people\u2019s trust in governments and politicians, and confidence in their systems of government is as low now as it has ever been over the last fifty years, if not lower.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Darren Hughes, Chief Executive of the Electoral Reform Society, said: \u201cIt is clear there is a crisis of confidence in our democracy. Just a week after the National Centre for Social Research found that public trust in politics has sunk to a record low, our new polling shows that a massive three quarters of the public think politics is not working well and needs to improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is imperative that we arrest this startling decline and rebuild trust in our democratic institutions as a matter of urgency. No project to repair the British public\u2019s relationship with politics will succeed if it doesn\u2019t reform our stuttering Westminster system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCentral to this is the distorting First Past the Post voting system, which doesn\u2019t accurately represent the way the country voted with seats in Parliament. It also reduces the focus of the main parties to the handful of \u2018swing seats\u2019 that change hands at an election, meaning large parts of our country have been ignored and left behind by politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRestoring trust in Westminster is vital and has to start with bringing in a fairer proportional voting system for the Commons. This would reinvigorate the public\u2019s relationship with our democracy by ensuring that every vote counts and every part of the country matters to whoever is in government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three quarters of the public say that Westminster needs to improve, new polling has found. A poll of 2,226 people, conducted by Savanta on behalf of the Electoral Reform Society, found 76% feel that politics needs to improve significantly. 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