It really comes back to the point—many Members have made it—about the threshold needing to be high enough. There are clearly two ways in which people view the electorate. I was under recall by the Trots for 10 years, and it was the electorate who saved me. It is possible to look to one’s voters as a bulwark of freedom, not as a group of people who wish to destroy us.
Recall of MPs Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Field of Birkenhead
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 21 October 2014.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Recall of MPs Bill.
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