Hughes: Major progressive reforms

Simon Hughes, Liberal Democrat deputy leader, comments on the coalition government’s voting reform package:

“After 13 years of Labour inaction, Nick Clegg today announced a welcome and major series of progressive political reforms.

“The coalition government has decided in one move to give all voters a much greater say in who is chosen to represent them and to give parliament a much greater say in the business of government.

“With an easier and more up to date electoral register in the future, the whole of Britain will have a much more representative democracy. We will also end the scandal where votes have been of unequal value and in many places of no value at all – and where many people have scandalously not even been allowed to vote.”