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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.
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?

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Reference

457 c691 

Session

2006-07

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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