Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Tuesday the Labour Party will contest the next election ​with a manifesto commitment to change the electoral system, ‌after he announced he was establishing a national commission to look at reform.

Insurgent parties like Reform U.K. surged at the polls this week. But the British electoral system wasn’t built for multiparty democracy. By Michael D. Shear Michael D. Shear reported from London and from Dumbarton and Edinburgh in Scotland. If British ...

Earlier this year, a local by-election in the United Kingdom drew widespread attention for its political outcomes. Less visible, but equally important, were the recurring questions about how those outcomes were reached. The February Gorton and Denton by ...

LONDON (AP) — Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday. Death toll in Philippine ferry fire rises to 35 as more bodies are ...

Andy Burnham belted out The Red Flag, the Labour anthem, on Wednesday, closing a conference that confirmed his mastery of the party. Labour members have spent four sunny days in Liverpool bathing in the prime minister’s mix of nostalgia and hazy visions of a brighter future.

Labour’s new homeownership scheme is a copycat of Help to Buy: subsidising renters to purchase properties at inflated prices, instead of making housing affordable.

Andy Burnham has broken his pledge to respect Brexit by opening the door to rejoining the EU, single market or customs union.