Boris Johnson's government has quietly published details of an "election power grab" to neuter the UK's elections watchdog and undermine its independence.
In the government's first act since the Prime Minister returned from his second holiday of the summer, it set out details of the proposals, branded "extremely dangerous" by the chair of the Committee on Standards in Public Life when they were first suggested.
The publication comes just months after the Electoral Commission found the Conservative Party had broken electoral law over the funding of Boris Johnson's Downing Street flat refurbishment.
