Linton has campaigned for electoral reform for a number of years and wrote "Labour's Road to Electoral Reform: What's Wrong with First-Past-the-Post?" (with Mary Georghiou, 1993) and "Making Votes Count: The Case for Electoral Reform" (1998). The government backed one of Martin's amendments in February 2010 which puts the Labour party's commitment to a referendum on the alternative vote system into legislation. Linton does not believe that tax exiles should be able to donate to political parties, and has lobbied for an enquiry into whether Lord Ashcroft breached the House of Lords code of conduct.