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European Union Referendum Bill

May I take the right hon. Gentleman back a moment to his arguments about the franchise? Is he arguing that prisoners should be empowered to vote in the referendum? If they should be in the parliamentary franchise, which arguably—under the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights—they should, that might be an argument for their inclusion, but I noticed

that, when he was First Minister in Scotland and the matter was being debated here, the silence of his Administration on the subject was deafening.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
596 c1073 
Session
2015-16
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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