Sentences with phrase «of prisoners the vote»

No wonder the thought of prisoner voting makes David Cameron physically ill.

Even with the radioactive issue of prisoner votes excised from the draft, pending a Government appeal, Mr Clarke is expecting trouble.

The issue of prisoner votes returned to the courtroom this week, with an unsurprising judgment on many fronts.

Not exact matches

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My own opininon regarding allowing prisoners with sentences of less than four years the right to vote is that it is actually a fudge.

Britain will have to continue its fight with the European court of human rights for a decade if it is to protect the ban on prisoner voting, David Davis has warned parliament.

It has ruled that denying prisoners their right to vote is an infringement of their human rights.

However, besides addressing some of the recent controversies in the UK human rights landscape such as deporting suspected terrorists and prisoner voting, the Conservative Manifesto does not provide much detail on what specifically a British Bill of Rights will contain and how it will differ from the HRA.

The idea of murderers and rapists being able to vote uses extreme examples to make the point, no mention of the prisoner who didn't pay their TV license.

How will they ensure that prisoners who are guilty of serious offences but serving short sentences are not given the vote?

In Westminster Hall yesterday, ahead of the binding Commons vote, Philip Hollobone instigated a debate on voting rights for prisoners.

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Ministers had thought a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights would force them to give prisoners the vote only in Westminster or European parliamentary elections.

Will the Minister provide details of the precise mechanics that prisoner voting will entail?

«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the shadow Secretary of State for Justice and is now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».

The most famous debates of this kind were on prisoner voting and, of course, the EU referendum motion (in which 81 Tory MPs rebelled).

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Last week, MPs voted on a motion put forward by David Davis and Jack Straw, opposing the right of prisoners to take part in elections.

I wonder why our politicians think that a prisoner is capable of holding elected office but not voting for one.

The government should rather look to our European neighbours, all of whom permit the majority of prisoners to vote.

However, I am a pragmatic politician and, as such, have some sympathy for the view that allowing prisoners to vote would help rehabilitate at least some of them.

It had frustrated eurosceptics over issues like prisoner voting and the deportation of Abu Qatada, and is now insisting no - one in jail should face the prospect of not being let out of prison before they die.

For instance, we could allow voting rights for prisoners in open prisons, namely those convicted of relatively minor crimes, and offenders who are transferred from a secure environment.

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The House of Commons has spent all afternoon debating the issue of whether prisoners should have the right to vote, as has been instructed by the European Court of Human Rights.

«That this House notes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v the United Kingdom in which it held that there had been no substantive debate by members of the legislature on the continued justification for maintaining a general restriction on the right of prisoners to vote; acknowledges the treaty obligations of the UK; is of the opinion that legislative decisions of this nature should be a matter for democratically - elected lawmakers; and supports the current situation in which no prisoner is able to vote except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.»

With Parliament asserting itself on votes for prisoners, there must now either be reform of the European Convention on Human Rights, the European Court's interpretation thereof, or of Britain's relationship to the Convention.

Of the MPs who backed votes for prisoners, there was only one Conservative - Sir Peter Bottomley, MP for Worthing West.

The BBBC - which allows backbenchers proper time to debate issues that matter to them (and the public) like Europe, petrol prices, or prisoners» votes - has been one of the best things the Coalition has done to make Parliament look like the honourable and relevant institution it should be.

«The Hirst judgment says that article 3 of protocol 1 of the European convention on human rights obliges this House to give some prisoners the vote; as we have heard, it also gives rise to financial compensation to some prisoners who have been denied that right.

«In considering the Government's policy on this thorny issue, will the Secretary of State, if he has to abide by the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights, restrict the right to vote to those prisoners at the lowest level of seriousness — for example, those dealt with by the magistrates courts for summary offences only?»

If Murdo Fraser's new party had been formed at dvolution to appeal to the Christian Democrat voters who used to form a Conservative majority of the popular vote, or if Tommy Sheridan hadn't given up politics to spend more time with prisoners then the SNP wouldn't have had such a pushover.

During Justice Questions yesterday, the issue of votes for prisoners was raised on the back of the recent judgment from the European Court of Human Rights.

David Cameron should heed their advice and that of his own minister and allow sentenced prisoners to vote.

Following the ruling by the apex court, then President John E. A. Mills announced during the inauguration of the Ankaful Maximum Security Prison in the Central Region on November 8, 2011, that the EC will be well - resourced to register prisoners for them to vote in the 2012 elections.

Through its own audit procedures, the Ministry of Justice has been systematically seeking prisoners» level of interest in voting and is known to have received positive responses.

Practically, there would be few difficulties in expanding the arrangements already in place enabling remand prisoners to vote to the rest of the sentenced prison population.

This has resulted in tens of thousands of sentenced prisoners being unlawful denied their right to vote in local, national and European elections.

The Electoral Commission has set out a mechanism by which prisoners could be enfranchised though a system of postal or proxy voting.

The government has today published proposals that could see certain categories of prisoners allowed to vote while in jail.

The past president of the Prison Governors» Association said: «The blanket ban on sentenced prisoners» voting is out of step in a modern prison service and runs counter to resettlement work which aims to ensure that prisoners lead a responsible, law - abiding life on release.»

Earlier this week Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform argued in a comment piece for politics.co.uk that prisoners deserve the right to exercise their citizenship by voting.

Gove will use his speech to warn that the European court of justice will decide whether prisoners can vote, intervene on how intelligence services monitor suspected terrorists, and control asylum and refugee policy.

The tactic of using the business committee to force a Commons division was successful in overturning moves to give the vote to prisoners.

They have faced criticism over David Cameron's negotiations over the EU budget, over confirming they will almost triple the cap on tuition fees to # 9,000 and over the announcement that they will have to implement the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that prisoners should be able to vote.

Clarke's defiant stance on prisoner voting and more community sentences is at odds not just with Conservative core voters but many Labour core voters — in other words, a lot of voters, as the Sun and Daily Mail have noticed.

Grieve's exit has cleared the way for the Conservative party to clash more directly with the European court of human rights as he had cautioned over defying the Strasbourg authority on issues like prisoner voting.

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