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We think that Manchester is the most comparable example. Compared to Glasgow, Manchester is a broadly similar size and its airport is in a similar location in relation to the city centre.
As was shown in the midlands, the current system is inherently susceptible to fraud. I will compare the process of applying for and using a postal vote, which I have done, with the process of applying for and using a credit card.
I want to tease out some information about the roles of the Executive and the First Minister compared with the role of the Secretary of State for Scotland in your time.
It is an interesting petition and it is good that the wider aspects that we heard about when we went on our pre-legislative visits have been brought to our attention.
However, we have no reason to think that that does not happen except in exceptional cases. We wanted to give local authorities the power to check such matters.
Were this power to exist it would require to be a truly exceptional situation and would need to be subject to judicial determination at the earliest opportunity.