Out of proportion
The bill to reform the House of Lords looks like being another failed attempt by Liberal Democrats to bring proportional representation to Westminster. But where did the idea of PR come from?
— The first such system was proposed by Louis Antoine Saint-Just, a deputy in France’s National Convention after the revolution.
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