Schedule 1
Political Parties and Elections Bill
7:00 pm
James Duddridge (Whip, Whips; Rochford and Southend East, Conservative)
I thought the Minister was saying that politicians ought to be treated equally in these amendments and the clause more widely. Is it not the case that the Electoral Commission would not be able to enter the House of Commons and raid an MP’s office and that they would not be able to go into the House of Lords, unless the Member was perhaps based in 4 Millbank, which is not formally part of the parliamentary estate? If that were the case, their office could be raided. Is that not an inconsistency?