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Fifteen Minutes for the Church of England and Elections

One of today's oral questions was 15 minutes allotted for two MPs to alternate on answering questions on the Church of England and the Electoral Commission.

I thought I might manage to raise some concern about the government's lack of interest in people being disenfranchised by the postal voting system. Sadly, however, the time was up very quickly and it will have to wait for another day.

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John Hemming said…
Your case is sadly not unique. You will note that the government do not collate information about people who are disenfranchised.

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