Steve Reed

I am grateful to my hon. Friend and, indeed, to others who were involved with the Speaker’s Conference. They have made a huge contribution to the shape of the Bill and the detail…

I hope the hon. Lady will forgive me if I make progress. We are going further with our support for the Electoral Commission. The commission is the independent statutory body taske…

I will give way to my hon. Friend later. We know already that illicit finance can damage people’s trust in politics, and maintaining the confidence of the electorate is imperative…

I will take one more intervention.

I will give way to the hon. Gentleman, and then to my hon. Friend the Member for Kensington and Bayswater (Joe Powell).

The right hon. Gentleman makes an important point. That is not currently part of the Bill, but I am always happy to keep the position under review. We want to remove obstacles to…

My hon. Friend will hear about that further along in my speech. I need to make progress, or you will be angry with me, Madam Deputy Speaker. We are looking at automated voter regi…

I certainly share the hon. Lady’s confidence that this is the right thing to do, and I thank her for making that point.

I will give way one last time.

That is a very appropriate intervention. My hon. Friend makes his point very well and I agree with what he has to say. We will establish new safeguards on digital campaigning and…

We are tightening the rules on donations so that the system can be much more robust and has much greater integrity than is currently the case. My predecessor, my right hon. Friend…

I thank my hon. Friend for her support for these measures? They were in the Labour election manifesto on which we both stood, and it is a great pleasure now to start to implement…