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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Mikey Smith

Ministers urged to scrap voter ID plan after government report branded it 'unachievable'

Ministers have been urged to scrap plans to introduce mandatory voter ID after a government report said the project "appears to be unachievable".

The policy was forced through by Boris Johnson ’s Tories despite no evidence of widespread in-person voter fraud taking place, and amid warnings it could strip thousands of people of the right to vote.

Now, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority has graded the government's Electoral Integrity project as "red" in their annual report.

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