Principles of democracy

Motion Text

That this House asserts the basic principles of democracy whereby 50 percent plus one of those who vote in a democratic ballot commands a majority for change; rejects suggestions that a future British Government would legislate to require more than half of the entire registered Scottish electorate to vote in a future Scottish independence referendum; notes that the Right Honourable Member for South West Norfolk achieved only 47 percent of eligible votes from the Conservative and Unionist Party leadership election; and calls upon the Right Honourable Member for Holborn and St Pancras to similarly disassociate from a suggestion which this House considers to be fundamentally undemocratic.