Prisoners’ Vote Cost Tory MP

The prison vote likely cost a tough-on-crime Conservative MP his seat in the last election, according to newly-released data. A lawyer who won a Supreme Court decision granting inmates the vote said the outcome does not distract from fairness of the ruling: “There are a lot of bad people who aren’t in prison, and they still get the vote.”

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