Clause 22 - Nomination procedures
Electoral Administration Bill
4:45 pm
Brian Binley (Northampton South, Conservative)
No, I didn't think you were. It seems to me there is a balance between protecting a democratic right and allowing genuine candidates to take part irrespective of the size of the support for the position they represent, and protecting the democratic process from those who wish to use the election for their own rather spurious ends. I cite a case in the election before last in Northampton, where a candidate sponsored by the Daily Star ripped off her plastic nurse's uniform at the count and whose photograph appeared in that paper.