John, over to you.

Thank you very much, Alan, and thank you for the opportunity to come along today.

Uh, the Representation of the People Bill has the scope and the potential to make several really important improvements to our electoral system.

I'd like in these remarks to highlight two.

The first is around participation, and the second is around resilience.

So in terms of participation, um, the bill paves the way for automatic, automated voter registration, so we end the scandal of eight million people either being completely missing from the electoral register or incorrectly registered, and therefore being deprived of the opportunity to vote.

That change will make a huge difference, particularly to those people who are more likely to be in a group that don't get registered at the moment.

Uh, so, um, shall we go to John first on, in this round?