I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman. He has pursued this matter assiduously and has rightly said that it is foolish to make party political points—[Interruption.] No: Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Democratic Unionist and British National party members have been convicted of electoral fraud in this decade. I therefore hope that we will not make silly and pointless allegations.
Does the hon. Gentleman agree that the way to remedy a Government failure to implement what the Electoral Commission kept on telling us was needed is to have a procedure whereby the commission’s recommendations are automatically laid—perhaps by a member of the Speaker’s Committee—before Parliament so that they do not depend on the partisan view of the Government of the day?
Electoral System
Proceeding contribution from
Simon Hughes
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 26 February 2007.
It occurred during Opposition day on Electoral System.
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