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Lisa Nandy, the shadow foreign secretary, said today the government should be defending the UK’s democracy from foreign interference rather than making it harder for people in the country to vote by making photo ID compulsory. She told Sky News:
We have got to defend our democracy robustly but I just think it’s really bizarre coming from this Government that they have made it so much more difficult for people in this country to vote over recent years, but they have taken absolutely no action to defend our democracy from attacks overseas.
It has been 18 months since the prime minister was handed a report that said that Russia in particular was interfering in our democracy, a series of recommendations in that report, and not a single one has been implemented.
