COMPULSORY voter ID is a “disastrous and shambolic” policy which must be reversed, campaigners demanded today after the elections watchdog said some people wanting to vote in England’s local elections were turned away.

Electoral Commission chairman John Pullinger said he witnessed people being stopped from voting and stressed there is a need to “get underneath” the issues behind the problem.

Today’s poll was the first since the Tory government’s widely condemned Elections Act 2022, which created a requirement for voters to show a passport, driving licence or other permitted form of ID in English local elections or British general elections.