Newsnight tonight and Jeremy Paxman is presenting a piece on Labour election fraud in Birmingham. I do not have Sky+ so this is as I hear and type it - just some key phrases - "Banana Republic", "told lies", "bribe their way into power", "city wide election fraud", "thousands of £s bribing voters", "£20 per postal vote", Asian drug addicts paid to impersonate voters in multiple polling stations - 25 times at £5 a go, "corrupt and illegal practices". So that's the same man found guilty in 2004 (although cleared on a procedural appeal) and up before the electoral court again in 2007.
A Labour party statement is read and Sir Alistair Graham is interviewed about electoral register improvements, apparently his recommendations submitted in January have yet to be reacted to by this Labour government.
You might want to look at this article for more on this case, from a while back.
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