Ms Carole Cadwalladr:

In terms of changing our electoral laws, that depends on the Government. The recommendations have come from the Electoral Commission, from the DCMS committee and from the Information Commissioner's Office, ICO. There is a whole suite of recommendations that say our electoral laws do not work, are completely inadequate, are not fit for purpose, and are placing our elections at risk, and the Government has failed to act upon any of them. That is why calling an election in these circumstances is so particularly troubling.