Fair votes now

BRITAIN’S unfair electoral system benefits a Conservative Party that has ruled most of the past century-and-a-quarter despite securing only a minority of votes.

Labour’s conference in Liverpool has a glorious opportunity tomorrow to embrace fairer votes in General Elections when it debates ditching first-past-the-post.

Keir Starmer is opposed. But with the support of “King of the North” Andy Burnham, left-wing veteran John McDonnell, the majority of constituency parties and now trade union converts, it is finally time for a change.

The Daily Mirror has championed fairer votes for decades. We’ve waited long enough.