TORY insistence on overriding objections to their pilot of controversial plans making voters carry photographic ID as the price of casting their ballot is sinister in the extreme.

Using residents of Bromley, Gosport, Swindon, Watford and Woking as guinea pigs has already resulted in the grave injustice of people on the electoral register being denied the right to vote.

What was the evidence put forward to justify this practice, which owes much to the gerrymandering associated with right-wing forces in the US who try to disenfranchise voters for being from black or other minority ethnic communities, for being poor or less likely to support Establishment candidates?