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The Tories have only one
The Tories have only one policy on democratic reform – opportunism.
Arch centralisers when in office, they now claim to be
localists.Having refused for decades to accept any reform of the
archaic House of Lords, some of them now claim to support
a fully elected House.The choice is forward with new Labour to
modern institutions and more power than ever devolved to
communities and successful local authorities. Or back with
the Tories to a government indifferent to the health of our
democracy and negligent of our institutions.