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GORDON Brown is to push through legislation to guarantee that if Labour wins the next General Election, it will hold a referendum within two years on scrapping the traditional way MPs are elected.
At the Labour Party conference in September, the Prime Minister unexpectedly announced that he wanted to give people a vote on whether to replace Westminster's first past the post system with the Alternative Vote (AV) system. The policy was to have been in Labour's manifesto; the intention now is to write the commitment in law.See the full content of this document
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Plan to Make Vote Referendum Law
Under AV voters rank the candidates. If none gets 50per cent of ...
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