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Public Bill Committee: Political Parties and Elections Bill: New Clause 1 (18 Nov 2008)

Eleanor Laing: ...than “Will you vote?” generally, but often the conversation comes round to whether a person votes generally. We find people who say “I don’t vote”, like “I don’t smoke” or “I don’t eat pasta” or “I don’t ride a bicycle”, as if there is no duty to register to vote. It is as if they are asserting that they are in some way...

Petitions: Drugs (2 Jun 1999)

Mrs Eleanor Laing: ...in these matters. When I was a very small child in the mid-1960s, Richard Dimbleby, the late, great broadcaster, made a documentary for television about the dangers of cigarettes and heavy tobacco smoking and its links with lung cancer. I do not remember the documentary at all—I was far too young—but I realise that it was the first time that the link between cigarettes and...

European Parliamentary Elections Bill: 'Review of electoral system (18 Nov 1998)

Mrs Eleanor Laing: ...close to it; I will also leave out the flattering bits about the Home Secretary. Mr. Relph goes on to say: The 'closed' list is one of candidates hand selected by an unelected cabal meeting in smoke filled rooms who will ensure that independent minded 'socialist' … personalities … will never be on the ballot paper. I did not expect to find myself in such agreement with Mr....