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Trade Union Bill

Proceeding contribution from Nick Boles (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 27 April 2016. It occurred during Debate on bills on Trade Union Bill.

Madam Deputy Speaker, I can assure you that my relations with the Socialist Workers Party or its newspaper are probably rather less good than the hon. Gentleman’s, so it was not through my good offices that it got hold of any document—not that I accept that it did get hold of any document.

The hon. Gentleman asks a reasonable question, and I have made it clear that the Government have no objection in principle and that we expect statutory elections eventually to move towards online voting, but we will do that with trade union strike ballots when we are convinced that such voting is safe. That is why we want an independent review that will report to Parliament. I will not prejudge its outcome, because if I did, it would be slightly pointless to have the review in the first place.

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Reference

608 c1474 

Session

2015-16

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

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