general election

The Conservatives largely benefited from the discrepancy between votes and seats, winning a majority of seats on a minority of the vote.

This election should be the last ever conducted under the First Past the Post system which has shut out so many voices, says the Electoral Reform Society.

Age UK says that one and a half million older people in England now have some unmet need for care, one in seven of the entire older population.

The UK remains the only country in Europe to use First Past the Post for its main elections: a system in which only one candidate wins in each area, and all other votes go to waste.