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The MPs’ expenses controversy has plunged politics into crisis, says Stephen Twigg – but it is also an opportunity for overdue radical reform
Stephen Twigg, Progress magazine, June 2009

PM calls for 'major reform' of politics
Today programme, BBC R4, 1 June 2009

Labour campaign for a Citizens' Convention on Constitutional Reform
Jessica Asato, LabourList, 31 May 2009

Time for a citizens' convention
Brian Brivati, Comment is free, 30 May 2009

Time for state to fund political parties, says James Purnell
Nicholas Watt and Allegra Stratton, The Guardian, 30 May 2009

Labour's last chance: oust Brown, then bring in PR
Polly Toynbee, Comment is free, 29 May 2009
Progress campaign for a citizens' convention:
Signatories
  • Ian Bridge
  • Renu Marley (Phoenix Business Academy)
  • Andrew Jenkins
  • Panos Koumi (LGBT Labour & Fulham and Chelsea CLP)
  • Gus Baker (Chair, Bristol Labour Students)
  • John Slinger (http://slingerblog.blogspot.com)
  • Gareth Young (Campaign for an English Parliament)
  • James Green (Labour PPC for Cheltenham)
  • Owais Rajput (Bradford West CLP)
  • Steve Smedley (Suffolk Coastal republic)
  • Jeremy Miles (PPC for Beaconsfield)
  • Jeremy Killingray (Islington North Labour Party)
  • Marcus Hobley (Southwark & Old Bermondsey CLP)
  • Tariq Sadiq (Labour PPC South Cambridgeshire)
  • david anstee
  • Mustafa Arif
  • Olu Ajayi (Organisational Re-Thinking)
  • alan smith (als training)
  • Jack Scott (PPC, Sheffield Hallam)
  • Lawrie Schonfelder (West Wirral Labour Party)
  • Sonny Leong (Chair, Chinese for Labour)
  • Daryn McCombe (LYL & LGBT Labour)
  • John Newman
  • Ben Lyons (Co-Chair, Oxford University Labour Club)
  • Dada Samuel (Student (Birkbeck College University of London))
  • Dada Samuel (Student (Birkbeck College University of London))
  • Dada Samuel (Student (Birkbeck College University of London))
  • Robert Smith (PPC for Havant)
  • Matt Nash (Blaydon CLP)
  • Louisa Loveluck
  • Chris Bain (North Warwickshire clp)
  • melvin cole (South kirkby &Moorthorpe Council)
  • Rob Shorrock (Grantham Residents Group)
  • Titus Alexander (Educator and campaigner, Novas Scarman)
  • Richard Rowson (Ethics in Public Life)
  • Owen Ramsay (Hackney South & Shoreditch CLP)
  • Rob Shorrock (Grantham and Stamford CLP)
  • David Boot (Labour PPC for Mid Sussex)
  • Kat Gibson
  • John Tizard
  • Justin Meadows (Chair, Oxfordshire Young Labour)
  • tim finch (Director of Strategic Communications, Ippr )
  • Cllr Andrew Judge (PPC for Wimbledon )
  • Mary Simones-Jones (Amicus delegate to Hall Green CLP)
  • Dr D Simones Jones (Hall Green CLP / Amicus Parliamentary list)
  • Vaughan Thomas (Norwich Labour Party - Wensum Ward)
  • Vaughan Thomas (Norwich Labour Party - Wensum Ward)
  • Adam Gielgud (Former Chair Wycombe CLP)
  • Adam Gielgud (Former Chair Wycombe CLP)
  • Adam Gielgud (Wycombe Constituency Labour Party)
  • chris brown (Dulwich & West Norwood Labour CLP)
  • Omar Salem (Labour Party member)
  • Councillor Sally Prentice (Lambeth Council)
  • John Barlow (Bucks County Labour Party)
  • Samuel Burt (Treasurer-Elect, Oxford Labour Club)
  • Philip Glanville (Hackney Councillor)
  • Samuel A Dada (Birkbeck University)
  • Professor Dr D Ben rees (Labour party stalwart)
  • Richard Burden (MP)
  • Irene Barton (Labour Party)
  • Anthony Collingwood
  • John Newham (Progress)
  • Andrew Pope (Member Southampton CLP & Co-operative Party)
  • Ed Straw
  • Michael Meacher MP
  • Craig Ryan (East Ham CLP)
  • Martin Jones (Chair, West Midlands Co-operative PC)
  • Doug Taylor (councillor, London borough of Enfield)
  • Stephen Curran (Glasgow South Constituency Labour Party)
  • Nicole Murphy (EWAS CLP)
  • Nan Sloane (Leeds North East CLP)
  • George Jones (Emeritus Professor of Government LSE)
  • David Hadley (North East Bedfordshire CLP)
  • Peter Cheney (Chair: Ilkley Labour Party)
  • Ralph Baldwin (Member Newham CLP)
  • Ged Taylor (Chair, Liverpool West Derby CLP)
  • Richard Burden MP
  • Leon Reefe (Forme Leader Hertsmere Borough Labour Group)
  • Bert Jones (Ilford North CLP)
  • Dominic Shellard (Normanton CLP)
  • peter jackson (Cheadle clp)
  • Bob Deed (Member, Ladywood CLP)
  • Derek Milton (FCO (Retired))
  • John Lawrence Schonfelder (West Wirral CLP)
  • Terry Jackson-Baker (Macclesfield CLP)
  • Claude Moraes MEP
  • Thomas Simcock
  • Brian Boag (MEP candidate, North West and University Lecturer)
  • Megan Warne (Sevenoaks CLP)
  • ron marchant CB
  • Richard Marx
  • Bill Cameron
  • Richard Messingham (Treasurer, Young Fabians)
  • Councillor Barry Edwards (Islington Labour Group)
  • Jeremy Killingray (Islington North Labour Party)
  • Mark Day (Progress)
  • Clive King
  • Richard Lane (www.politicana.co.uk)
  • Adam Lewis (National Vice Chair elect, Labour Students)
  • Cllr Florence Nosegbe (London Borough of Lambeth)
  • John Pierson (Staffordshire University)
  • John Adams (Gateshead CLP)
  • Kay Wood
  • Wendy Speck (Battersea Labour Party)
  • Tim McLoughlin (Islington North CLP)
  • Anne Reyersbach (Battersea CLP (member))
  • Simon Stanley JP (Society of Labour Lawyers)
  • ursula ayliffe (bexleyheath and crayford CLP)
  • Daniel Harris (Paisley and Renfrewshire North CLP)
  • Will Straw (Vauxhall CLP)
  • Cllr Faizullah Khan (LB Hackney)
  • Ron Reid-Edwards (Hackney South and Shoreditch CLP)
  • Claire Hazelgrove (Labour PPC for Skipton and Ripon)
  • Tracey Hill (Brighton Pavilion CLP)
  • David Coats (Associate Director Policy, The Work Foundation)
  • Anne Showstack Sassoon (Vauxhall CLP)
  • Funda Pepperell (PPC for Basingstoke)
  • Mike Smith (Streatham CLP)
  • Stephen Burke (Campaigns Officer, Hammersmith CLP)
  • Peter Watt (Former Labour Party General Secretary )
  • paul ayliffe (Bexleyheath and Crayford CLP)
  • Brian Barton (Labour Party Member)
  • Tanweer Ali (Labour International, Geneva Branch)
  • Jonathan Clarke (labour party member)
  • Rupa Huq (Former Labour European election candidate)
  • Sir Steve Bullock (Elected Mayor, London Borough of Lewisham)
  • Jackie Reilly (Castle Point CLP)
  • Mike Ion (Wrekin CLP)
  • Mike Katz (Vice-Chair, Jewish Labour Movement )
  • Andrew Pope (Compass Southampton)
  • Cllr Mark Bennett (Labour councillor, London Borough of Lambeth)
  • Cllr John Cowan (Parliamentary Candidate SE Cambs)
  • Mark Rusling (Fabian Society Executive)
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