I was speaking the week before last at the Dukeries College in Nottinghamshire and one pupil asked about compulsory voting. I asked the opinion of the audience. There was a majority, but only a small one, against making voting compulsory. When I asked the same question last week to pupils at Bradfield College, Near Reading, there…
I spoke last night at a meeting organised by the Hansard Society to discuss how to tackle political alienation in this country. There have been suggestions that, given declining trust in Parliament, it is necessary to have radical change of both Parliament and the constitution. The view I expressed was that constitutional and structural change…
