With millions of voters heading to the polls today, how many will forget to bring along suitable photo ID? One of the more noteworthy, it seems, is, er, Boris Johnson who was reportedly turned away from a polling station earlier today after failing to bring acceptable identification. According to Sky News, which broke the story:

Polling station staff were forced to turn the former prime minister away after he initially failed to comply with legislation he introduced while he was in Downing Street. Mr Johnson, who introduced the Elections Act requiring photo ID in 2022, was attempting to cast his ballot in South Oxfordshire, where a police and crime commissioner for the Thames Valley is being selected.

A spokesman for the ex-PM did not deny that he had failed to bring ID, saying only: ‘Mr Johnson voted Conservative’. Good thing he got there in the end. It comes just hours after Johnson had fired off a tweet, saying ‘The polls are now open. Vote Conservative today!’ What is it with Boris and rules, eh? Mr S is old enough to recall the long-forgotten days of, um, 2004 when the-then Telegraph columnist fulminated against the iniquity of ID cards:

If I am ever asked, on the streets of London, or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am… then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it.

Let’s just hope other Tory voters remember to bring their passports with them…

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Boris Johnson forgets his ID to vote

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02.05.2024

With millions of voters heading to the polls today, how many will forget to bring along suitable photo ID? One of the more noteworthy, it seems, is, er, Boris Johnson who was reportedly turned away from a polling station earlier today after failing to bring acceptable identification. According to Sky News, which broke the story:

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