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Power to the People: final report launched (27 Feb 2006)
Lords Debate the POWER Report
The House of Lords debated the POWER Report for four and a half hours on 15 June 2006. The debate ranged from the congratulatory to the critical and featured statements of support from Lord Shutt of Greetland (Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Director and Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Trustee) and Lord Smith of Clifton (Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Director), as well as from Baroness Helena Kennedy, the POWER Commission’s Chair.
Read the debate in full here | Read what Helena Kennedy had to say
Helena Kennedy joins ‘parliament and engagement’ debate
POWER Commission Chair speaks in House of Lords debate
Read what she had to say |
Read the full debate
Press coverage
Harrow Open Budget
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 24 October (audio file)
Democracy Dinners
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 12 September 2005 (audio file)
Chair Helena Kennedy and writer Victoria Mathen talk to the Today Programem as Democracy Dinners week launches.
People and government: after 5 May the divorce proceedings continue
Helena Kennedy, Renewal, July 2005
Public interest in local politics needs reviving
Local Government Chronicle, 28 April 2005
Beyond the Ballot: 57 Democratic Innovations from Around the World
Director Pam Giddy talks to Radio 4 about 'experiments in democracy' around the world allowing "real people to get involved in real decision making" and how Britain might learn from some of them.
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 28 April 2005 (audio file)
Labour's biggest opponent this time is the Won't Vote Party
Ferdinand Mount, Daily Telegraph, 13 April 2005
Helena Kennedy discusses the role of constitutional reform in the new Labour manifesto on the Today programme
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 13 April 2005 (audio file)
Trust me, I'm a politician
openDemocracy (www.opendemocracy.net), 18 March 2005
Michael Howard appears before POWER Commission
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 5 March 2005 (audio file)
A More Democratic Britain?
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 5 March 2005
Radio coup for city DJ Emma B
Jonathan Walker, Birmingham Post, 1 March 2005
Anger, frustration and alienation: in Croydon and beyond
Polly Billington, Today Programme Weekly Newsletter, 28 February
Battle of the ballot for our hearts and minds
Birmingham Post, 25 February 2005
Robin Cook, Helena Kennedy and the people of Croydon speak about turnout and participation on the Today Programme
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 23 February 2005 (audio file)
Poll positions: voters are likely to stay away from the UK election in droves. But is that really a sign of apathy?
Helena Kennedy, Sunday Herald, 30 January 2005
Get people back to power
Helena Kennedy, New Statesman, 8 November 2004
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Press releases
Give citizens power to make laws, urges Inquiry
‘Power to the People’ calls for radical power shift from centre
Low turnout caused by ‘lack of trust’, not apathy, survey shows - 24/05/05
Findings of the Power Inquiry's national survey of non-voters on 5 May 2005.
Decision-makers ‘lack will’ to re-engage public interest in democracy - 28/04/05
Beyond the Ballot report urges the authorities to be creative and learn from other countries to reinvigorate Britain's democracy.
Michael Howard to give evidence - 23/02/05
Diary notice: Michael Howard to give evidence on 4/3/05
Robin Cook to give evidence - 17/02/05
Diary notice: Robin Cook to give evidence on 23/2/05
POWER comes to Scotland - 27/01/05
Tomorrow sees the first meeting of POWER in Scotland.
POWER goes to the people - 05/11/04
Today sees the first meeting of POWER, an independent inquiry looking at the state of Britain's democracy
Young Commissioner - 04/11/04
Hastings lad wins national competition to help change the face of Britain's politics
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