The true impact of new voter ID measures must be revealed once next week’s local elections have taken place, ministers were warned today.
Commons Levelling-up Select Committee chairman Clive Betts warned there may be confusion in counting numbers of people turned away for not bringing photo identification to polling stations on Thursday.
He said some councils will use “greeters” on the door to turn away voters without appropriate ID, while others will turn people away after speaking to a clerk inside polling stations.
