“About 39 million people will be anyway invited to vote next May and it seems to me, instead of asking people to constantly go back to polling booths to cast separate votes, it is perfectly right to say on a very simple issue, yes or no, to invite them to do so at, by the way, lower cost to the Exchequer - it saves around £17m - on the same day as other elections.”
Nick Clegg manages to avoid calling Tory-backed policies illegal as he makes the case for a joint date for the AV referendum and Scottish and Welsh Assembly elections…despite it contradicting advice from the Electoral Commission.
