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Saturday 30 April 2005

OSCE team is to scrutinise UK election

A few years ago one might have been mildly insulted to think that our democracy was being put under the microscope by a bunch of outsiders. Personally I welcome the involvement of the OSCE, given the recent controversy over the integrity of postal voting, in particular, although I understand it will be rather low-key (11 monitors for a country with 60 million inhabitants). My hope, though, is that the report will neither be unnecessarily alarmist, nor unusually bland. We may be an 'old democracy', but I hope we are mature enough to receive sensible criticism in the right spirit.

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