![]() ![]() Miriam Cates used the phrase during her speech at the National Conservatism conference earlier today. "The SNP will continue to oppose these Tory voter-ID laws for all elections, but with the Tories so intent on bending the rules, and Labour refusing to tear down bad Tory laws, it’s clear that only with the full powers of independence can we get rid of Tory governments and Westminster attacks on our democracy – for good."Ī Tory MP's claim that "cultural Marxism" is "destroying our children's souls" has been criticised by the government's antisemitism tsar. Brazenly undermining democracy and shutting people out of the electoral process was exactly what the Tories designed these laws to do. "It’s no surprise that we have evidence that this draconian legislation has pushed people away from voting. "Rees-Mogg has admitted what we knew all along - that this scheme only exists as a ploy to gerrymander the next election in a desperate bid to cling to power. In a statement, the SNP's Cabinet Office spokesperson, Kirsty Blackman MP said: "We found the people who didn't have ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well." ![]() "Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections," he said. ![]() Speaking at the National Conservatism conference earlier, Mr Rees-Mogg said the policy, which he defended when a government minister, had made it harder for elderly Tories to vote. The SNP have criticised former cabinet office minister Jacob Rees-Mogg appeared to describe the introduction of voter ID as an attempt at "gerrymandering" that backfired against the Conservatives. ![]()
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