There’s a risk in tackling such problems more directly, but not doing so only makes matters worse in the long run
I’ve never been a great fan of Eric Pickles, briefly an underwhelming, budget-cutting leader of Bradford city council, later an underwhelming local government secretary whose chief contribution to “localism” was to localise the budget cuts and still tell town halls what to do. I just didn’t trust him.
But he has a point in saying the government at every level should take more seriously the sensitive issue of voter fraud, not least by requiring identity checks at polling stations.
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