Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill

Lord Maples Excerpts

Monday 15th November 2010 Lords Chamber

[Lord Maples]

I am grateful to my noble friend. Does he agree that an electoral system which, at the general election in 2010, required the Conservative Party to get 40 per cent of the vote to get an overall majority but Labour to get only 34 per cent cannot possibly be considered fair?

[Lord Strathclyde]

My Lords, my noble friend makes a very good point—but it is not the fundamental case that the Government are making in the Bill. This is about a general fairness across the country.