The idea that the Liberal Democrats have more values in common with the Tories is preposterous.
The system I favour, which is Jenkins's . . . was a brilliant synthesis of systems that both maintain the constituency link, which I value, and introduce a greater element of proportionality. As we've got that [report] why continue to reinvent the wheel?
And so I can announce today that, in Labour's next manifesto, there will be a commitment for a referendum to be held early in the next parliament ... It will be for the people to decide whether they want to move to the alternative vote.
Yeah, but I think it will come. I think it will come. I think it's just a matter of time but, as I say, I think it was a missed opportunity.
You have two questions: Yes or No? If Yes to change, which of the following options do you prefer?
The reason I've never supported AV is that it would have given us an even bigger majority in 1997, and it would have given the Tories an even bigger majority in 1983, and probably 1987 as well.
You only need one referendum
I don't think [electoral reform] is something that made Tony get up in the morning
Of course I would have liked us to have done more, more quickly.
Simulations of how the 1997 result might have come out under AV suggest that it would have significantly increased the size of the already swollen Labour majority.