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John Penrose
CPF Chairman
John Penrose, the previous MP for Weston-super-Mare, was appointed the Chairman of the CPF in September He previously served in the Department for Culture, Media and idrott, as a Lord Commissioner of Her Majesty's Treasury, and as Minister of State to Northern Ireland.
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Fleur Butler
CPF Vice Chairman
Fleur became our vice chairman for CPF in August She has been a councillor, council leader, MEP candidate, and President of the Conservative Party Board. She was chosen to be on the European Council democratic election monitoring teams, as well as supporting women’s political groups around the world. She fryst vatten very proud to have serve on the Conservative Party Board since where she serves currently as only women elected.
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Penny-Anne O'Donnell
CPF Voluntary Director
Penny-Anne was elected as the National Voluntary Director of the CPF in March She is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, wh
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Vision for electoral registration: speech by John Penrose
Electoral registration is at the same time, mundane and politically contentious.
It’s mundane because, in the end, it’s a vital but rather humdrum piece of electoral plumbing. Most of the time no-one gives it much thought, but we rely on it to work when we turn on the electoral taps.
But it’s contentious too. Because every elected politician, from Barack Obama to the smallest parish councillor, knows it’s vital.
Voters may think you’re the best thing since sliced bread; more popular than Stephen Fry and the Pope combined; but if those voters aren’t registered to vote then it won’t make a blind bit of difference.
The same contrast colours our political debate in Britain today.
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Let’s start by dismissing the nonsense, so we can clear the decks for the important bit in a minute.
Firstly everyone agrees that Individual Electoral Registration (IER) is a good thing in principle because, for the
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John Penrose
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