Clegg admits voting reform agenda may be blocked by Tories

NICK CLEGG yesterday offered sweeping voting reforms but Britain’s deputy prime minister admitted they may never come to fruition because of differences with his coalition partners.

The Liberal Democrat-Conservative government, formed after the May 6 general election failed to produce an outright winner, has promised to give voters the chance to change Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system.

On offer would be a switch to an “alternative vote” method, under which members of parliament would need at least 50% of the vote in their constituency to be elected.