People labelled "idiots" and "lunatics" under archaic mental health laws could soon be allowed to stand for Parliament.
Ministers are considering scrapping ancient rules after complaints from mental health campaigners that they are discriminatory.
Laws created in Elizabethan times define idiots as "incapable of gaining reason" and lunatics as capable of only periods of lucidity.
They are banned from becoming MPs "in their non lucid intervals".
Some of us had assumed that the House of Commons was stuffed full of lunatics and idiots already.
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