The new rules are not necessarily unfair,

The rules are ambiguous and you can't call up (Voters Services) and get an opinion, ... In 1999 that was (a) result of erroneous instructions that we got from Voter Services. I'm very skeptical.

There has been a subversion or violation of the rules, intentional or not.

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong.

When I was in office the fundraising was done by the party treasurers.

Certainly we've seen the enormous changes across the whole of the Middle East. The democratic genie is out of the bottle.