Jonathan Reynolds: I No Longer Oppose First Past the Post

Co-conspirators may remember a young Labour/Co-Operative MP earnestly presenting a 10-minute rule motion in 2015 which would scrap First Past the Post and introduce more proportional additional member voting (à la Scotland and Wales) for Westminster. His impassioned final cry: “I make a plea today for not just a proportional voting system, but a patriotic voting system, in which all parts of the country and all shades of opinion are treated equally and fairly”…

That was nowhere to be seen on Peston last night when Shadow Business and Trade Secretary Reynolds was asked about his views:

“Look, it’s a system that we have.