Peter Kellner

Some veterans of the Jenkins Commission fear another review could go where reform goes to die.

And Peter Kellner has warned that a fully proportional system could cost Labour more than 100 seats.

Across the Commons, the Greens' Eddie Chowns welcomed the move, but called it a glaring contradiction to warm... to warn about minority government and insist on one more election under the old rules.

Reform UK, which has dropped its support for PR, saw Nigel Farage say he was open to debating it at some point, but had more urgent priorities.

And the polls show, he's going to do terribly and his opponents are going to win.

But can we believe those polls? There is no better person to talk about this than Peter Kellner.

Peter has written for virtually every serious newspaper going.

He helped found the polling company YouGov.

It helps move the podcast, forgive me, up the charts and the logarithms, whatever they're called, work their magic.

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I'm joined this week by Peter Kellner, the great postman.

the baffling intricacies of five-party, six-party politics, if you're in Scotland and Wales, under a first-past-the-post system.

Yeah.

And I saw Peter Kellner, that veteran pollster, who was part of YouGov many, many years ago.

He thinks we're possibly getting back to two-party politics.

Yeah.

Andy Burnham's embarking on a big political project, potentially to change the voting system and, and, and make politics a little bit more cooperative, so yes, parties working, uh, together.

Uh, into our inboxes this morning dropped an analysis from Peter Kellner, the pollster, um, and he just had a look at what the political landscape would be if there was a more proportional voting system, and un-under the MRP that, that you covered a couple of weeks ago.

The Greens would move from nine seats under first past the post to 78.

Now, given that Labour under the proportional model that he's done would be 164, there would be a very clear choice, a very difficult choice for Labour, because to get into power, you'd probably have to, to, to co-opt the Greens to, to work with you.

This emotive speech earned praise from across the political spectrum.

But will this translate to votes? Here's political analyst and local resident Peter Kellner

The reason why the Labour Party kicked out Keir Starmer was because Labour was very unpopular.

Andy Burnham comes along and his offer to his party is, "I can go back and reconstruct a Labour election winning coalition." A large part of reconstructing the Labour winning coalition is that he appeals more to the disgruntled people on the left who've gone to other parties.

It's, it's really interesting.

Peter Kellner, the pollster-

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...uh, has done some analysis very recently that's been published, and it shows that people who are voting Labour now are more middle class.