CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

DEMOCRACY – PR - 13 May 1999

DEMOCRACY – PR - 13 May 1999

Dr Julian Lewis: The Prime Minister said yesterday that he is pondering the consequences of the electoral system that the Government have introduced in Scotland and in Wales. Does the Leader of the House think that she could find time next week for the Prime Minister – if he has completed his ruminations – to share his conclusions by explaining in a statement to the House what is fair, representative and democratic about a system that evidently is enabling the party that came first to abandon manifestos, shed commitments, carve up power and distribute ministerial posts not to the party that came second, or even to the party that came third, but to the party – the Liberal Democrats – that came a very poor fourth?