Kemi Badenoch - will you commit to fix our broken system?

Open letter to Kemi Badenoch MP
Congratulations on your election as leader of the Conservative Party. With your historic victory, there is a real opportunity to begin to fix our broken political system.
You have said “the whole system is broken.” We agree. You have said “we need to reboot, reset and rewire the way that government works so that it can serve the public.” We echo that call.
You have spoken in interviews about the need in politics to “bring people together”, about anchoring your platform to the “common ground” of British public opinion. When it comes to voting reform, public opinion is clear: people are done with this system that leaves millions feeling empty-handed.
First Past the Post is a straitjacket for our politics. New ideas are stifled by an unrepresentative Westminster consensus, setting Parliament at odds with the people it serves.
More than any other in our democratic history, 2024 was the general election which produced the largest mismatch between how the public voted and the outcome in Parliament.
6 in 10 voters don’t have an MP they voted for. Looking at where Conservative votes were cast, less than a third of Tory voters are represented by a Conservative MP in Westminster.
A Parliament this out of step with the views of the country is a damaging example of system failure. Especially at a time when, according to the National Centre for Social Research, a record proportion of people say they ‘almost never’ trust the government - to borrow a phrase - to ‘put country before party’.
Calling for system change while overlooking the fulcrum of this broken system - First Past the Post - would look like shirking the issue. For too long, you said in your launch speech, politics has embodied “the triumph of words over deeds.” Prove that you are the change.
You said it yourself: “better to deal with hard truths today than big problems tomorrow.” The leader you praised more than any other in your campaign was Margaret Thatcher, the quintessential conviction politician.
Now the stage is yours. This is your chance to bring the change. Gazump the government and come out for electoral reform.