Prisoner votes: Ministers in talks over European ruling

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The government is in the final stages of negotiations over a European Court ruling that it must allow prisoners the right to vote.
But government sources denied reports that the coalition was planning to introduce a draft law to allow some inmates to vote as "nonsense".
The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that a blanket ban on voting for anyone sent to jail is illegal.
The government has until the end of November to decide how to react.
The UK has been on a collision course with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) since the Strasbourg court ruled in 2005 that it was a breach of human rights to deny prisoners a vote.
The court ruled it was up to individual countries to decide which prisoners should be denied the right to vote from jail, but said a total ban was illegal.
In May of this year, it gave the UK six months to outline how it proposed to change the law on prisoner votes.

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Update from the BBC

Prime Minister David Cameron has said Britain will continue to defy a European Court ruling saying prisoners must be given the right to vote.
"No one should be under any doubt - prisoners are not getting the vote under this government," he told MPs.
But he offered a further Commons debate to "help put the legal position".
It comes after Attorney General Dominic Grieve warned Britain's reputation would be damaged if it did not follow the European Court ruling.
The government is negotiating with the court, but Mr Grieve said there was "flexibility" over action needed.
Most coalition MPs and Labour oppose giving prisoners the vote.