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Elections Bill

Proceeding contribution from Brendan O'Hara (Scottish National Party) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 September 2021. It occurred during Debate on bills on Elections Bill.

A charity has the right to advocate on behalf of its members and the people it represents. A charity must have the leeway and the bandwidth to advocate. To block that off screams of the anti-democratic road that this Government are determined to go down.

What we have here is a Government who are allergic to criticism, who are terrified of scrutiny and who are determined to give themselves, through this and other pieces of legislation, the powers to silence their critics. They want to prevent public displays of dissent and weaken their political opposition while, at the same time, entrenching the advantage that they already have, all at the expense of democracy.

About this proceeding contribution

Reference

700 c221 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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