The comedian and the presenter are among high profile backers for the party, using video messages to call for electoral reform and 'reflect the will of the nation'.
Steve Coogan and Carol Vorderman have joined the Lib Dems' call for electoral reform during the party's annual conference.Steve Coogan and Carol Vorderman have publicly lent their support to the Liberal Democrats as the party conference kicks off with a call for electoral reform and tactical voting.
Statistics from the party said the Conservatives were given 56% of seats in the Commons, despite only receiving 44% of total vote share at the last election, while the Lib Dems only have 1.6% of MPs, even though they secured 11.6% of the vote. The party has long called for the current"first past the post" system to be scrapped and be replaced with"proportional representation" - where the percentage of the votes a party gets across the country determines the number of MPs they send to parliament.
And now they have celebrity backing, with actor and comedian Mr Coogan using a video message played at a conference rally in Bournemouth to say the current electoral process"robs millions of people of their vote" and"millions of people's voices go unheard".
Ms Vorderman - best known for her time on Countdown - agreed with the need for change in her own video message to the gathering, saying:"We desperately need to end a system where only marginal seats matter, end a system which delivers parliaments that fail to accurately reflect votes cast and end a system where only the winner's votes count.
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