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Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill (Money) (No. 3)

Proceeding contribution from David Drew (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 February 2010. It occurred during Debate on bills and Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill.

Much as I have difficulty with this proposal, because it is based on the French system, does my right hon. Friend agree that we would need to take the whole package? French national politicians also have local representative roles, and I have always felt that one of the weaknesses of the UK system is that we have to throw away our local power base to get elected as an MP. That is a weakness, is it not?

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Proceeding contribution

Reference

505 c820

Session

2009-10

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House of Commons chamber

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Boundary commissions

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Constituencies