I am grateful for that intervention, from which I learned that the no campaign would like one of these booklets. However, I rather prefer the lock on the door that my hon. Friend the Member for Harwich and North Essex is proposing, as I remain to be persuaded that such a booklet can be phrased in a way that everybody would find fair. The fairest thing to do is to put this lock on the door; then we will know that we have had a fair referendum because everybody will have consented to it.
If the Minister will accept amendment 247, that will be wonderful and my hon. Friends will rest content. If, as I suspect, he will not, will he at least say that he will warn the Electoral Commission not to try to write a definitive document, as it would just be torn to pieces?
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
Proceeding contribution from
John Redwood
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 18 October 2010.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
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