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Political Parties and Elections Bill

I am astonished by the Conservative party's failure to oppose these new clauses. Surely the principle here is the concentration of power in the hands of the few. That used to mean Tory aristocrats trying to buy constituencies with their wealth—perhaps it still does—but the important principle at stake is the concentration of information in the hands of the state, and that is especially worrying in the case of a state as careless with people's personal data as this one. Surely the hon. Lady should be opposing these proposals.