Keir Starmer hails 'seismic' Labour by-election win with 26% swing from Tories
Boris Johnson was turned away from a polling station as he tried to vote in yesterday’s local elections after he forgot to bring the correct form of photo ID. Boris Johnson Volunteers in South Oxfordshire, where a police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley was being selected, were unable to give the former prime minister a ballot as he failed to comply with legislation he introduced while in Downing Street, Sky News reported.
Being turned away will likely be very embarrassing for Mr Johnson because the requirement to bring photo ID to polling stations forms part of the Elections Act, which he introduced in 2022 while still in Downing Street. The Electoral Commission has warned that hundreds of thousands of people could be excluded from voting because of the law, which it said could have a disproportionate effect on some groups.
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