Charles Moore Charles Moore

The Spectator’s Notes | 10 July 2010

The more you think about it, the odder it is that the only national referendum ever legislated for in this country, apart from the 1975 referendum about whether or not to stay in the EEC, should be about the Alternative Vote.

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