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Written by Paul Tyler
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Monday, 08 August 2005 |
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For someone who was Labour to his fingertips, the ease and impact with which Robin worked across the conventional party political frontiers was both an inspiration and an implicit condemnation of the narrowly partisan. His work with the Liberal Democrats on the whole range of the constitutional reform agenda before the 1997 Election, his efforts to modernise the practices and perceptions of the Commons as its Leader in the 2001 Parliament and his enthusiasm for our cross-party Bill to legitimise the Second Chamber with a majority of elected members (by STV) were all evidence of that. Above all, his consistent advocacy of equality of voting value for the citizen attracted the support of fair-minded people from the whole political spectrum. We must not allow that momentum to be lost: I could not bear to think what his acerbic comment would be if we did.
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