Damian was first elected as the Conservative Member of Parliament for East Hampshire in May 2010. He was re-elected to this position in May 2015, 2017 and again in December 2019.
Controversy around the European Convention on Human Rights is not wholly new.I well recall the issue of prisoners’ votes in 2011, shortly after I began as an MP. Then, in a free vote on a cross-party motion, Parliament voted overwhelmingly to retain the blanket ban on prisoners voting, despite