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Evening Standard
Politics
David Lynch

Burnham to face test of appetite for voting reform from Labour MPs

Andy Burnham is poised to become prime minister (Nigel French/PA) - (PA Wire)

Labour MPs are calling on Andy Burnham to back moves to change the voting system, in an early test of the prime minister-in-waiting’s appetite for change.

Some 88 Labour MPs, out of a total of 166 cross-party parliamentarians, have signed an amendment to a Bill due to be debated in the Commons next week, which would establish a national commission to investigate electoral reform.

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