Loss of Voting Right by Non-Attendance

Part of Orders of the Day — PARLIAMENT (No. 2) BILL – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 1 April 1969.

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When Mr. Speaker gave his Ruling saying that the Lords would be called upon to produce the document, there was some lifting of my heart. But it was a euphoric day. It was the day of the crowning mercy of Anguilla. People were dancing in the streets. Total strangers were caressing each other in doorways, and even the Anglican Bishop of South-wark smelt sweeter. But I was wrong.