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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/oneyear-link-to-inmates-vote-plan.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Downing Street has insisted the 'minimum number' of prisoners will be given the vote" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-oneyear-link-to-inmates-vote-plan.jpg" alt="Downing Street has insisted the 'minimum number' of prisoners will be given the vote"/></a></p>
<p>Downing Street has insisted the &#8220;minimum number&#8221; of prisoners will be given the vote amid signs of a Government U-turn on the controversial issue.</p>
<p>Speculation has been growing that ministers are preparing to back down over plans to give the vote to all inmates serving less than four years after a backbench revolt in the House of Commons. The cut-off point could be reduced to sentences of 12 months or less.</p>
<p>Prime Minister David Cameron has said the idea of giving prisoners the vote makes him &#8220;physically ill&#8221; but the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) found that the 140-year-old blanket ban was unlawful.</p>
<p>Failure to comply could cost tens of millions of pounds in legal costs and compensation, ministers warned. Some 2,500 inmates already have cases in motion.</p>
<p>But the prospect of granting the vote to more than 28,000 prisoners &#8211; including 6,000 violent offenders, 1,700 convicted of sex crimes and more than 4,000 burglars &#8211; sparked fury on Conservative backbenches when the four-year cut-off was floated last month.</p>
<p>MPs will have a chance to revolt against the proposal in a few weeks&#8217; time after Labour&#8217;s former justice secretary Jack Straw and senior Tory David Davis secured a Commons vote on the issue.</p>
<p>The Prime Minister&#8217;s spokesman declined to say whether a one-year maximum sentence was under consideration.</p>
<p>He said: &#8220;Our intention is to ensure that the minimum number of prisoners get the vote.</p>
<p>&#8220;At the same time, because this is an issue that has been sitting there for a number of years and hasn&#8217;t been resolved, we have a backlog of compensation claims by prisoners. Clearly we can&#8217;t ignore that and the possible costs associated with it. What the number should be &#8211; whether it is four years or some other figure &#8211; is essentially a matter of legal advice.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan said: &#8220;I am pleased that this Government has undertaken this U-turn. The Government should be standing up for the victims of crime but instead they are slashing police numbers and giving dangerous convicted prisoners the vote.&#8221;</p>
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