It has been a rough week for the coalition, and the Lib Dems' ambitions for constitutional reform have had the worst of it. The battle for the alternative vote teeters between success and disaster, while the attempt to allow prisoners the vote is taking on water. Complying with the 2004 ruling from the European court of human rights is still on the agenda, but in so weak a manner as to be likely to provoke a new legal challenge.
To read more click here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jan/24/editorial-prisoners-vote-echr?CMP=twt_gu
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