Why are millions of adults not registered to vote? Sean Curran reports. Also, the challenges of kinship caring - looking after children in place of their parents; and stand by for the AI-assisted museum of the prime minister.
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0:00.0 | Order. Order. |
0:02.5 | Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Friday the 23rd of May. |
0:10.0 | Coming up, up to 6 million people are entitled to vote, but they can't. |
0:14.7 | Is automatic voter registration the answer? |
0:17.6 | It works and it's cheaper than the present system and ensures that those groups |
0:23.1 | who are very underrepresented are on the register. The challenges facing kinship carers who look |
0:31.1 | after children in place of their birth parents. We've had a number of struggles with back and |
0:36.5 | forth. We're currently on a waiting |
0:39.3 | list with CAMs, which is three years. And get ready for an AI-assisted museum of the Prime |
0:45.6 | Minister. You'll be able to ask Churchill questions about why did he want to become Prime Minister? |
0:52.5 | What were his worst moments during the Second World War? |
0:55.4 | But first, this week, a delegation handed in a letter signed by supportive MPs and peers to 10 Downing Street, |
1:03.0 | calling on the government to introduce automatic voter registration. |
1:07.2 | The campaign group Unlocked Democracy calculates that around 6 million people |
1:11.7 | who are entitled to vote |
1:13.4 | haven't signed up to take part in elections. |
1:18.2 | They held an event in Port Cullis House, |
1:21.1 | the modern parliamentary office block |
1:22.7 | just across the road from the Palace of Westminster, |
1:25.6 | to brief MPs about the situation in their individual |
1:29.0 | constituencies. |
1:30.3 | It's a new pass on the Pontine East and Wars End. |
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