Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 4:40 pm on 5 June 2019.
My Lords, given that the Prime Minister dithered for four weeks between the agreement to extend the Article 50 process, on
As the Minister has just said, and as he has repeated on a number of occasions, we are now faced with a legislative hiatus. Would this not be a good opportunity not just, as the noble Lord, Lord Kennedy, said, to look at the overall problems with electoral law but particularly to look at the problems that occurred with the last referendum so that we can get it into a better shape before we have the next one this autumn?