Studies led by Ron Johnston of Bristol University uncover a clear pro-Labour bias in the present system.
But other differences better explain the system's pro-Labour bias (smaller in the 2010 election than in some previous ones).
So it could be now if anti-reform Tory MPs - of which there are many - vote with pro-reform Labour MPs.
Pro-hunt Labour peer Baroness Mallalieu said the parliamentary system had failed to protect a minority from "unfair legislation", so they would look to the courts to do so.
Without anything as significant symbolically as Labour's pro-nationalisation Clause Four to scrap, Mr Cameron has chosen to move on multiple fronts.
The independent commission was set up after winning the backing of Scotland's pro-union parties, Labour, the Tories and the Liberal Democrats, in a Scottish Parliamentary vote.
Mr Rennie said he was hoping to reach agreement with Scotland's other pro-union parties - Labour and the Conservatives - on increased powers for Holyrood, in the event of a "no" vote in the referendum.
Mr Brown vigorously rejects one criticism that, these days, is sometimes aimed at New Labour, the pro-market social-democratic force of which, along with Tony Blair, his predecessor as prime minister, and Lord Mandelson, now the business secretary, he was a progenitor: that it was a fair-weather creed.
Given that that is the view shared by the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, there is now in theory a pro-Leveson parliamentary majority made up of Labour, Liberal Democrat and dozens of Tory MPs who don't agree with their leader.
The government would accuse Labour of opportunism but Messrs Cameron, Osborne and Hague - who served their apprenticeships under John Major - will remember that Labour's resolutely pro-European leader John Smith found an excuse to vote with the Eurosceptics over the Maastricht Treaty, producing chaos and division in the government.
Someone on the pro side, pro Tony Blair side, in the Labour controversy that's going on at the moment.
He said the party was not just anti the coalition as it would also consider targeting Labour MPs who had been pro-private sector.
So Ms Halonen, a Social Democratic labour lawyer who is generally viewed as pro-gay and anti-church, could turn out less red than she has been painted.
Originally a barrister and also an MEP until 1994, he has long been a strong supporter of Labour modernisation and is one of the most pro-European ministers in the government.
Many Conservatives on the right of the party argue the government's pro-growth initiatives are inadequate and that changes to the labour market, tax cuts and other "supply side" measures needed to boost competitiveness are being held back by the Lib Dems.
By Harold Wilson's time in the 60s, even despite the Vietnam War, friends of the special relationship were fortunate: Wilson's Foreign Secretaries for most of his tenure were Labour conservatives George Brown and Michael Stewart, whose pro-American sympathies were accepted by an emollient "beer and sandwiches" Premier anxious to maintain peace in a fractious government.
Labour will want to present itself in the election campaign as a pro-business party, so Mr Brown will make some inexpensive concessions to show that he is alive to firms' grievances.
Douglas Alexander did not and would not say "we sceptics" but the shadow foreign secretary was clearly trying to protect Labour's flank from those who dislike the fact that the party was pro the euro and anti a referendum.
And with both the Conservatives and the British press becoming more sceptical in the 90s, one of the most pro-EU party leaders - Tony Blair - felt he had to offer a referendum if a Labour government were to decide it was in Britain's economic interests to join the euro.
Peter Temple-Morris, MP for Leominster, and a pro-European, resigned the Tory whip in November 1997 and sat as an independent before defecting to Labour in June last year.
While the pro-euro camp show every sign of taking on the iron discipline of Tony Blair's New Labour, the antis are riven by doctrinal disputes which will make it difficult to develop a single, coherent message.
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