As well as being a democratic outrage, first past the post also has additional unseen consequences

It is an article of faith amongst political reform campaigners that the existing First Past the Post (FPTP) electoral system needs to go if we are to improve Britain’s democracy. Here, Ed Straw describes the ‘unseen consequences’ of FPTP, and suggests that organisations such as Office for National Statistics and the Institute For Fiscal Studies to estimate these costs.