Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill Debate

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Lord Touhig

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Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

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Tue 7th Dec 2010
House of Lords
Monday 6th December 2010

(13 years, 5 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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In what respect? I said that AV was the one that only had single member constituencies. AV+ has single member constituencies and top-up members on lists. I suspect that the noble and learned Lord knew that.

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If I understood the noble Lord correctly, he said that AV was put forward because there might have been a presumption that the Labour Party, which had supported it in the past, would support it now. But his Prime Minister does not support it.

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