Emeritus Prof Christopher May on Nostr: John Pullinger (of Electoral Commission) has told FT that he thinks that the #Tories ...

John Pullinger (of Electoral Commission) has told FT that he thinks that the #Tories have 'opened themselves' up to the charge that a new voter identification scheme is designed to benefit the Tory party, having examined the results of the 'pilot' use in local elections.

#RishiSunak has resisted a widening of the forms of identification that can be used (proposed by David Willets), and so the 'very, very strict' rules are likely to disenfranchise many potentially Labour #voters.

No surprise!