Extracts from Lords debate on the Queen's Speech: Police and Crime Commissioners - May 13
Friday, 14 May 2021 07:09
Lord Tyler (LD) [V]:...Meanwhile, the Home Secretary is apparently
attempting to undo Parliament’s relatively recent insistence that
metro mayors and Police and Crime Commissioners should receive
effective majority support to qualify themselves for wide-ranging
individual powers. Fiddling the electoral system there, just
because Tories benefit from the distortions of the first past the
post system, is hardly conducive to trust and integrity. Taking a
rigorous look at the proven illegality...Request free trial
(LD) [V]:...Meanwhile, the Home Secretary is
apparently attempting to undo Parliament’s relatively recent
insistence that metro mayors and Police and Crime Commissioners
should receive effective majority support to qualify
themselves for wide-ranging individual powers. Fiddling the
electoral system there, just because Tories benefit from the
distortions of the first past the post system, is hardly conducive
to trust and integrity. Taking a rigorous look at the proven
illegality of leave campaigners in the 2016 referendum, and
publishing in full all the evidence of foreign interference, then
and since, including that from the Russians, would be genuinely
addressing the lack of electoral integrity...
(LD):...It is with some irony that I note how the
by-elections now planned for another six hereditary Peers will be
conducted by the alternative vote system, just as was the recent
election for our Lord Speaker. What is good enough for us should
also be good enough for electing mayors and Police and Crime Commissioners By
seeking to abolish any form of preference voting for these
positions, the Government are simply setting out to make it easier
for Conservatives to be elected even when most voters would prefer
to have someone else...
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