Electoral Administration Bill

As it happened, I won by nine votes in that election. If anybody was going to challenge that result, it would have been the other party. It was the other party that might have benefited from the votes of the second home owners, because, on the whole, they tended to be Conservatives rather than Liberals. I am not aware that it was a widespread practice, but it remains a fact that it could be. In the circumstances that we have now, where so many seats are much less safe than they used to be, it is only right that we should recognise that there is at least one advantage of a national record. There may be other disadvantages—I do not wish to comment on them—but, in these circumstances, the Minister has a good point.