Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I move the amendment tabled in my name. At the outset of my speech, I want to make it absolutely clear that we broadly agree with the Welsh Government's stated principles on electoral reform, which it announced earlier this year i.e. to make voting more equal, more accessible, easier and simpler to participate in and a process with more integrity. But the difference between us and the Labour Government is that we see no reason whatsoever that the UK Government's Elections Bill is incompatible with those principles.

In spite of the song and dance that Labour Ministers have tried to make about the provisions in the UK Government Elections Bill, most people will be looking on with incredulity at their opposition to straightforward safeguards against voter fraud that will strengthen the security and integrity of elections here in Wales. And the big question is: why isn't the Welsh Government bringing forward similar sensible proposals for Senedd and council elections here in Wales? Electoral fraud is a heinous crime, of which every person in this Chamber and this country has been a victim, and it's a crime that we will be a victim of again and again if steps are not put in place to combat it. And the fact that there are very few cases of voter fraud that actually end up in the courts doesn't mean that it isn't happening. The nature of fraud is that it often goes unnoticed and unrecorded. But where it has been identified—I'll take an intervention in a second, Mike—where it has been identified in places such as Tower Hamlets, Slough, Birmingham and elsewhere it has exposed weaknesses in election arrangements that we have a duty to address.