{"id":50578,"date":"2018-07-21T15:44:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/21\/mps-call-for-changes-to-electoral-system-after-vote-leave-broke-rules\/"},"modified":"2018-07-21T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T13:44:23","slug":"mps-call-for-changes-to-electoral-system-after-vote-leave-broke-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=50578","title":{"rendered":"MPs call for changes to electoral system after Vote Leave broke rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to John Bercow signed by 45 MPs says existing fines are regarded as \u2018simply the cost of doing business\u2019More than 40 MPs have called for far-reaching changes to the UK\u2019s electoral system, which was described as unfit for purpose and in dire need of reform after the official Brexit campaign was fined \u00a361,000 for breaking campaign rules.Stephen Kinnock, whose letter to the speaker, John Bercow, was signed by 45 Labour, Lib Dem and Green MPs, said the existing fines were an insufficient deterrent and were regarded as \u201csimply as the cost of doing business\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2018\/jul\/21\/mps-call-for-changes-electoral-system-vote-leave\" target=\"_blank\">MPs call for changes to electoral system after Vote Leave broke rules<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to John Bercow signed by 45 MPs says existing fines are regarded as \u2018simply the cost of doing business\u2019More than 40 MPs have called for far-reaching changes to the UK\u2019s electoral system, which was described as unfit for purpose and in dire need of reform after the official Brexit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}