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December 22, 2013
Some prisoners should be allowed to vote in elections, MPs and peers are due to say today in a report that has sparked fury.
One Tory MP branded the findings “spineless and morally confused”.
The row follows the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruling that banning convicts from voting is unlawful.
In 2011, MPs called overwhelmingly to keep the ban but the Government promised to respond to the court’s rulings.
MPs and peers report today on three options favouring the vote for prisoners serving 12 months or less – in line with magistrates’ maximum sentence – and for all to be entitled to register up to six months before release.
MP Dominic Raab said: “This report proposes the most politically spineless and morally confused of all the options. It would give the vote to terrorists, rapists and paedophiles.”
Prime Minister David Cameron has made clear he does not want to extend votes to prisoners, telling the Commons it would make him “physically ill”.
However the report notes that Britain is under a “binding international law obligation” to comply with the ECHR ruling. It warns that defying it would be “completely unprecedented” and have “grave implications”.
