Well, that didn't take long. Following the report in The Times, Jack Straw has just issued a statement saying the proposals to close polling stations and cut voting hours are “simply unacceptable”:
I and other ministers had absolutely no knowledge about this exercise.
I make no complaint about that but now that it has gone public I make clear what I would have told officials privately: That these proposals are simply unacceptable.
The exercise has therefore ended. Democracy has to be paid for.
It must be the fastest U-turn on record.
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