Former Conservative prime minister says 'payroll vote' too dominant and calls for slimmed-down CommonsThe former prime minister Sir John Major has called for the number of government ministers to be reduced by up to one-third in order to end the dominance of parliament by the "payroll vote".Major said he was "dismayed" by the "malfunctioning" of Britain's democracy and the low regard in which voters currently hold politics.In an apparent criticism of first past the post voting for Westminster elections, Major said the system delivered "freakish government majorities" that did not reflect the true balance of political opinion in Britain."I am pretty dismayed at the disregard in which politics is held today and the way in which politics often seems to ...