Electoral Commission backs EU question
The Electoral Commission has given its backing to the wording of the UK’s EU Constitution referendum question.
The commission is required to gives its views each time a referendum bill is introduced to Parliament.
The proposed question reads: “Should the United Kingdom approve the Treaty establishing a Constitution for the European Union?”
The commission “welcomed the brevity” of the question, believing “the question prompts an immediate response and encourages each voter to interpret it in the same way.”
It added: “the question makes it immediately clear what decision the voter is being asked to make, and that the level of public awareness surrounding the European Constitution and the referendum process will be sufficiently high to remove any necessity of having an introductory paragraph.”
