Latest YouGov data shows support for reform of both Houses of Commons and Lords
The latest YouGov tracker data shows the most popular options for both the House of Commons and the House of Lords is reform – a new electoral system for the Commons and elections for the Lords.
That first tracker data matches up with last year’s news that support for PR hit the highest level since the British Social Attitudes survey started.
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So only 27% of the population want a system that gives massive parliamentary majorities to a minority vote. 45% want a democracy and 27% don’t car/know
45% want a democracy – according to another recent YouGov poll, that’s “nearly one half”!
This ‘nearly one half’ poll finding should be compared to the reaction to the EU Referendum: No fewer than 48.1% of those who voted wanted to remain in the EU (plus the millions who decided not to vote and the thousands of spoilt papers), the EU result was nowhere as clean-cut as the Leavers wished to claim.