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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Dan Bloom

Tories set to force all voters to show ID as last-ditch Supreme Court fight fails

The Tory law to force all voters to show ID at polling stations is set to go full steam ahead after a last-ditch Supreme Court challenge failed.

A campaigning pensioner today lost a Supreme Court fight against pilots of the controversial scheme in 10 areas of England.

Meanwhile the Elections Bill - which will widen the power to cover all of Great Britain - looks set to pass through the House of Lords within days, despite last-minute battles over a separate power in the same Bill that gives the government powers over the elections watchdog.

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