Lib Dems blast Elections Bill as “painfully timid” and call for transformative change to lock out Trump and Musk 

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Commenting on the publication of the Representation of the People Bill, Cabinet Office Spokesperson Lisa Smart MP said:

“Our political system is broken. Public life is increasingly mired in corruption and scandal, and outdated systems reward the political establishment at the expense of everyone else. We need transformative change.

“Votes at sixteen are long overdue and we’re proud to have fought for them for decades. But this bill is nowhere near enough to fix a democracy that’s in crisis.

“We need to scrap our broken, unfair voting system,  make the House of Lords democratic, and finally lock out the corrupting influence of foreign actors like Trump and Musk.”

ENDS