There have now been two suggested referendums to be combined with the next general election. In both case ( electoral reform and Scottish independence ) its not the referendum question that's the motivation, but a desire to hold up the Labour vote. It shows you the lengths that Labour will toy with to hang onto power. The answer should be that no referendum is necessary with parties seeking e...

Plans to deal with an acute shortage of affordable homes in England by boosting the house-building sector are set to be revealed by the government.

The Scottish government is set to shelve plans for an independence referendum before next year's election.

On the 10th of October the House of Lords killed off the prospect of voters getting the power to initiate referendums on local issues. Up until then the Localism Bill had contained a modest proposal to give local people in England the power to call non-binding referendums on local issues if 5% of their fellow

No, not that referendum. We still don't know what will happen in Ireland where they may well have to vote again, as they got the original answer wrong. There will be no referendum in the UK or in Denmark, the country we are talking about. However, a little while ago the Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, announced that he was thinking of holding one or more referendums (that is the correc...

Any local authority in England wanting to raise council tax by more than 3.5% next year must hold a referendum, the government says

In the not too-distant, we are going to be offered a referendum to decide which voting system we prefer in the UK and Northern Ireland. This is the equivalent of being offered a trial-by-combat to decide who should be awarded a peace prize. Referendums have very little by way of respectability in terms of making voting fair.

People suspected of domestic violence could be banned from their homes for up to four weeks under plans to be trialled in England.

MPs are to debate government plans to ensure "significant" powers can only be transferred to the European Union in future after a UK referendum.

The Chancellor tells Scots business leaders SNP plans for an independence referendum are a "distraction".