Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

The hon. Gentleman's suggestion seems extraordinary. I had understood that the Labour party's position was to support the move towards an AV system, yet it seems that it wants to create all sorts of divisions and to undermine the legitimacy of any result. Surely, the whole point of the referendum is that it is a referendum for the electoral system for the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The only result that matters is the result for one constituency—the constituency of the entire United Kingdom. Trying to undermine the result by suggesting that, ““Oh, in Gloucestershire, they did not vote for it”” or, ““Oh, in one part of Scotland, they did not vote for it””, seems to be a very strange thing to want to do.