The Conservatives had a chance to reform things in 2011 with the Alternative Vote referendum but they opposed it. Not only did they water down the original prop

The Conservatives had a chance to reform things in 2011 with the Alternative Vote referendum but they opposed it. Not only did they water down the original proposal of a referendum on proportional representation, they actively sabotaged their coalition partners at every turn with exploitative and misleading campaigning and, as we learned later, underhanded tactics directly targeting the Lib Dem leader with the support of the PM himself.