Public Preferences for Integrity and Accountability in Politics - Results of a Second Survey of the

1 Alan Renwick, Ben Lauderdale, Meg Russell, and James Cleaver, What Kind of Democracy Do People Want? Results of a Survey of the UK Population: First Report of the Democracy in the UK after Brexit Project (London: UCL Constitution Unit, January 2022); Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Democracy in the UK: Second Report of the Democracy in the UK after Brexit Project (London: UCL Constitution Un. [...] But the differences were small: the ‘clear winner’ option is at 3 on the scale in the chart on the following page while the ‘fair share’ option is at 8, which indicates that, faced with a choice between the two, about 5% more people would choose the latter than the former. [...] Question: Which comes closer to your view? Question: Which comes closer to your view? The Prime Minister of the day An independent body should should appoint new members 6 17 19 58 appoint new members to the to the House of Lords House of Lords There should be no limit on The size of the House of Lords the number of members in 3 9 23 65 should be capped at no bigger the House of Lords than the Hou. [...] On the first point, specifying a legal origin did reduce support for the courts having a role to a degree: the combined extent of the two categories on the left of the following chart diminished. [...] The second figure on the following page shows, for each issue, the average increase in the probability of voting for the party that agreed with the respondent’s position over the party that did not agree.