内容摘要：How safety was regarded as, at best, not as a vote-winner; and at worst as an obstruction to the economy. How regulation was viewed as guidance to be bent. An inherent lack of curiosity - a presumption that someone else would check, that something

How safety was regarded as, at best, not as a vote-winner; and at worst as an obstruction to the economy. How regulation was viewed as guidance to be bent. An inherent lack of curiosity - a presumption that someone else would check, that something

However, it’s important to note that political parties have to campaign within the voting system as it is.First-past-the-post means the person with the largest number of votes in each constituency gets elected and candidates from other parties get nothing for their votes in that area.

Labour grandee Lord Mandelson told the BBC on Friday morning that his party had put its campaigning resources into certain seats in order to maximise its chances of winning a large number of seats, rather than boosting its overall vote share.A purely proportional system - where national vote share translated exactly into the number of seats - in 2024 would have given Labour about 221 seats and no majority. The Tories would have had 156 seats, Reform 91, the Liberal Democrats 78 and the Greens 45.However, it’s also important to recognise that voters might well vote differently if the voting system was more proportional.

The UK held a national referendum on reform of the voting system in 2011 after the 2010 election delivered a hung parliament and the Conservatives entered a formal coalition with the Liberal Democrats.The proposal to replace the current first-past-the post system with an

, which advocates said would make results more proportional to the national share of votes cast, was rejected by the public, by 68% to 32%.

The referendum was the price exacted by the Lib Dems for entering coalition with the Conservatives.The Tweedy the Clown scarecrow was created by Charmaine Gifford-James and it floats on this magic carpet over the Exedra pond.

Bosses at an animal welfare sanctuary have said "overwhelming public support" meant the charity had been able to survive a "very bleak" few months.Woodlands Animal Sanctuary, in the West Lancashire village of Holmeswood, warned it was

in August because of falling donations and increasing vet and drug bills.But a spokesperson said backing from the local community, other charities and businesses now meant it was in a much stronger financial position.