Electoral System

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 5:16 pm on 2 June 1998.

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Photo of Gerald Kaufman Gerald Kaufman Chair, Culture, Media and Sport Committee 5:16, 2 June 1998

Our present electoral system does not remove diversity of opinion in the House, either among several different political parties or within parties. It is one of my great regrets that the Labour party is not more monolithic. I am in favour of a rigidly controlled parliamentary Labour party so that my own ideas can be implemented as much as possible. That strikes me as an appropriate concept of democracy.

I am not focusing my opposition to alternatives to the first-past-the-post system merely on the system used in Israel.