Is PR finally coming? – Why electoral reform could be Labour’s last chance to save Britain

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 14 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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• It’s Podmasters’ 10th birthday! Get an extra 10% off a year’s Patreon backing. Reform could well land a colossal freak victory and total power over the UK at the next General Election. Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system is struggling to cope with our new five-party system. As voters desert Labour and the Tories in droves, has proportional representation’s moment finally come? Should Labour finally embrace fair votes for fear of something worse? Who is relighting the debate and how could it happen? And would a new PM’s promise to make every vote count be big enough to convince Britain that Labour is serious about changing Britain for the better? The New Statesman’s associate political editor and Oh God, What Now? regular Rachel Cunliffe digs into the new electoral reform debate with Andrew Harrison. • Read Rachel’s piece on proportional representation in the New Statesman here. • Back us on Patreon – www.patreon.com/bunkercast Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Producer: James Liddell. Audio production: Tom Taylor. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's happy birth data podmasters this month.
0:02.7	The home of Oh God What Now, the bunker, American Friction, and all your favorite podcasts
0:07.0	is 10 years old.
0:08.8	And to celebrate, we're offering an extra 10% off a year's support on Patreon.
0:13.3	Just follow the link in the show notes and help us keep going for another 10 years.
0:18.1	Some follow the noise.
0:20.5	Bloomberg follows the money.
0:22.3	Whether it's the funds fueling AI or crypto's trillion dollar swings.
0:26.5	There's a money side to every story.
0:29.0	Get the money side of the story.
0:31.1	Subscribe now at Bloomberg.com.
0:37.3	Music Hello and welcome back to the bunker, bringing you news without the nonsense every weekday morning.
0:48.7	I'm Andrew Harrison.
0:50.1	As we record, we're not entirely sure who the Prime Minister is going to be by the end of the year, or maybe even the end of the month.
0:56.1	But hanging up in the stratosphere above Labour's endless squabbles is a bigger question.
1:01.2	Could Britain's antiquated first-past-the-post when it takes-on electoral system end up handing unchecked power to a party with no experience of government, no respect for institutions,
1:11.7	and no interest in the opinions of anyone but their own supporters.
1:15.3	Reform have led in the polls are between 23 and 30% since April 2025.
1:20.5	Every other party has languished in the low 20s and late teens.
1:24.0	And since the Greens started surging in mid-20205, they've eroded labour in particular.
1:29.3	We're now living in a five-party system with a two-party electoral system.
1:33.5	And if nothing changes from the most recent projections, then Nigel Farage looks likely
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