DAVID Cameron was last night called on to lift Britain's blanket ban on prisoner voting after the European Court of Human Rights ruled it was illegal and some inmates at least must be allowed to vote.
The development raises the possibility that the first ballot in which Scottish prisoners take part could be the independence referendum in autumn 2014.
In a landmark judgment on the case of an Italian prisoner's human rights, the court in Strasbourg ruled it was "up to member states to decide how to regulate the ban on prisoners' voting".
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