• Draft Voting Eligibility (Prisoners) Bill

    Carl Gardner
    November 22, 2012

    Here is the government’s draft bill offering Parliament a menu of options on prisoners’ votes.

  • Chris Grayling’s statement on prisoners’ votes

    Carl Gardner
    November 22, 2012

    The Justice Secretary’s Commons statement on prisoners’ votes today was interesting in more ways than one.

    First, he’s chosen to put forward a draft bill for pre-legislative scrutiny – rather than a fully-fledged bill. I’m not sure why that’s necessary: when […]