The change they should make to the EFA

The Herald reports that changes to the Electoral Finance Act are likely. I am not so sure, as any changes would need to be given leave to go up the order paper, and also need to go through a select committee. And making significant changes to the law in election year is risky.

But there is one change which could be made easily, and would not require all the advice and rule books to be thrown out. That is to change the length of the regulated period from 1 January to 90 days before the election (or a fixed date such as 1 September). That has led to all the uncertainty over normal activities being caught up as election expenses.