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Voting by Prisoners

My hon. Friend is right—he makes a very good point. The then Labour Government well understood this when they excluded from the text the words ““universal suffrage””. They did that because although we have a very wide and general suffrage and a very democratic state, we do not have universal suffrage. The Strasbourg Court has imposed judgments on Britain that are outside the original treaty. We have signed a contract; it has gone beyond that contract.