If Our Democracy Is To Work For Everyone - All Voices Must Be Heard

Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst famously said “deeds, not words”. And as the Minister responsible for democratic participation, I am keeping that in the front of my mind as we approach 100 years since women won the right to vote and 90 years since women won equal voting rights to men.A key part of my work has been to seek to identify the needs of under registered groups, and those who feel excluded from our democracy. I visited every region in the UK to help understand why some groups