My hon. Friend is making a very important point about the importance of people voting in elections, but is he as concerned as I am that there appears to be a decline in voter turnout across large parts of the prosperous world, certainly in other European countries? Interestingly, this relates not just to the elections for the European Parliament, because turnout has declined even more in many countries in their national elections.
European Union (Referendum) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Mike Gapes
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Friday, 29 November 2013.
It occurred during Debate on bills on European Union (Referendum) Bill.
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