Shortly before the publication of the Jenkins Commission's report on a reformed electoral system for the House of Commons, Michael Pinto‐Duschinsky wrote an article making the case for first‐past‐the‐post voting. This article was published in the Times Literary Supplement on 25 September 1998, and is reprinted here by kind permission.
Send the rascals packing: Defects of proportional representation and the virtues of the Westminster model
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