The dust is settling on Thursday’s local elections and most votes have now been counted. But one of the big stories of last week is not the results of the vote, but about the process of voting itself.
For the first time, voters in England who headed to the polls needed to bring with them photographic ID. Accepted forms of ID included passports, driving licences, 60+ Oyster cards (but not the 18+ student ones) and some bus passes.
