Alex Mayer

Alex Mayer

Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard

Speaking in the House of Commons on 1 April 2025

Debate

Right of Self-Determination

Contribution

Some 700,000 people in Washington DC are currently disenfranchised because their representatives in the Senate and the House of Representatives do not have voting rights or full control of local government affairs. It is the equivalent of everyone in Bedfordshire voting for MPs who have no chance of going through the voting Lobby. Does the Minister agree that that is a particularly strange anomaly?

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