I prefer to make my own speech, and that is not a subject that I want to deal with. This Bill is about boundaries, not about increasing turnouts. A large part of the cause is the difference in the size of constituencies. It is not, I agree, the only cause. Differential turnout and the stacking up of votes in safe seats is certainly part of it, but the differential size of constituencies is part of it, and it is demonstrated by some of the figures I have just given.
Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Maples
(Conservative)
in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 16 November 2010.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill.
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