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Lord Katz (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 1 June 2026

Debate

Devolved Public Services: Funding

Contribution

My Lords, I wondered how quickly we might divert away from the question relating to Wales. I salute the noble Baroness’s ingenuity in talking about proportional representation. We have other devolved settlements with mayoral authorities to introduce more proportional ways of voting, but I point out that not that long ago, we had a national referendum on moving to a more proportional way of voting for general elections and an alternative to first past the post—I see some close observers of electoral systems are dissenting from my observations, so I will say “moving away from” first past the post—and that was resoundingly rejected by the British public.

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