Govt spokesperson cheerily telling us that voter ID works, saying that at last year’s elections ‘99.75% of people were able to cast their vote successfully.’ That means 0.25% weren’t, which may sound small, but in an average general election that’s 200,000 voters.

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Mayoral elections today were changed to #FPTP on the strength of this one line in the Tories manifesto.

That's all we're asking for from Keir Starmer. One honest line in Labour's manifesto.

One honest line to reflect that 80% of the Labour party support #PR .

That's it.

Really great to see the Greens and Lib Dems making gains too. Maybe the news channels could stop inviting Richard Tice and Reform on all the time and reflect the politics of this country.

Labour MPs, Mayors, councillors, Lords, and Baronesses are sitting members on a cross-party alliance of Freeports consortia spanning 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
If you look at council websites where Freeports are mentioned, you will get the glossy brochure version, these councils won't even mention…

Pippa Crerar Janet Edwards Helena Horton Kiran Stacey And you thought Boris Johnson was a moral vacuum...

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EXCL: Rishi Sunak to allow oil & gas exploration at offshore wind sites, prompting criticism that ministers are further abandoning climate agenda Helena Horton Kiran Stacey & me.
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Boris Johnson said in 2004 that he would eat his ID at a polling station in protest if the law ever required it.

In 2022, he passed a law requiring ID to vote and dismissed criticism it would stop people voting.

In 2024, he forgot his ID when trying to vote and was turned away.

LONDON: time is running out.

Low numbers of people voting means there is a real risk the Tory candidate could win.

Here's what's on the line:

❌ Free school meals cancelled
❌️ TfL fares to rise
❌ London’s air made toxic again

Vote now - by 10pm: iwillvote.org.uk

#THREAD

Tory donor Bassim Haidar is the latest multimillionaire to say he'll leave the UK to avoid paying £millions in tax following plans to scrap the “non-dom” regime, which has allowed him & 68,800 other non-doms to avoid paying UK tax on overseas income for 225 years.

'Military personnel prevented from using their Veteran's ID to vote'

If Johnny Mercer knew the Veteran ID Card was not accepted as Voter ID, then to be efficient, why not notify all those who had received one of that fact?

#LocalElections #ToryChaos theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Can you imagine London run by a Trump supporter? Me neither - get out the vote today for ⁦Sadiq Khan⁩

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🚨 IMPORTANT

London: latest updates show voting numbers are low, which means the risk of the Tories winning just skyrocketed.

Tell everyone you know right now: vote by 10pm tonight or we could wake up to a Tory nightmare.

Remember you need photo ID.

iwillvote.org.uk

So far today I've learned that Veteran Soldiers ID,Police Warrant card ID,& NHS staff ID are apparently unsuitable for voting.What have the Tories done? Why are they making it harder for people to vote?
There never was a problem of voter fraud in UK. #LocalElections2024

The electoral rules governing the civil service have simply collapsed, further underlining the collapse of accepted standards in public life under the liars and charlatans who have done so much damage to the country.

The disgrace here is of a Conservative MP who thinks they are speaking for Gibraltar but appears to be paying no attention to what the actual government of the territory is saying and doing because this is becoming just another excuse to say bad things about the EU.

🚨Up to 5 million Brits are unaware of the need for photo ID when voting!

Here's a thread with the FULL LIST of accepted ID to save and share. Remember yours tomorrow! 👇 1/10