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Voter ID plans are an assault on democracy Readers respond to the government’s move to make it compulsory to have photo identification in order to vote in elections from 2023 ‘Electoral law already contains all the protection necessary to secure the ballot and to prevent personation,’ says Michael Meadowcroft. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA ‘Electoral law already contains all the protection necessary to secure the ballot and to prevent personation,’ says Michael Meadowcroft. Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA Letters Wed 10 Mar 2021 12.58 EST Last modified on Wed 10 Mar 2021 13.00 EST There is, however, no need to detail its potential effects, nor a need for any guesswork. We have the clear evidence of election turnout in the 18 Northern Ireland constituencies before and after the introduction of compulsory ID. ....
Communities secretary Robert Jenrick’s comments at last week’s Local Government Association finance conference set out in the starkest terms yet the shift in the government’s thinking on councils taking a commercial approach. He made it clear a risky commercial approach by local authorities would no longer be tolerated, pointedly highlighting hotels and energy companies as two sectors in particular that they should avoid. It is surely no coincidence these are areas that led Nottingham City Council and Croydon LBC into muddy waters of late. Mr Jenrick criticised councils for “over reliance” on commercial income to balance budgets, displaying an apparent amnesia towards his recent predecessors comments encouraging the sector to aspire to self-sufficiency through a more commercial approach to managing its finances. ....