‘A country where the Electoral Commission is told what to do by the executive is not a country with free and fair elections’, Andrew Woodcock reports
Speaking to The Independent days ahead of Tuesday’s Commons debate on the prime minister’s Elections Bill, former commissioner David Howarth said that “catastrophic” provisions in the legislation give ministers new powers which could clearly be used by the ruling party to win an advantage at the ballot box.
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