That this House notes the ruling of the ecu Courtroom of Human Legal rights in Hirst v the uk wherein it held that there had been no substantive debate by customers of your legislature on the ongoing justification for sustaining a standard restriction on the correct of prisoners to vote; acknowledges the treaty obligations of the united kingdom; is

The textual content with the 1867 Reform Act is obtainable through Google Textbooks. In 1867 MPs debated if College workers and learners in Oxford and Cambridge ought Have a very vote, and have the ability exercise undue affect about elections within their cities – a debate with some parallels to the current query around the influence of prisons