Sunak's Little Local Difficulties and Starmer's Big Local Victories
Inside Briefing with the Institute for Government
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The New Features of Labour's Local Elections
Voter ID was causing lots of disgruntled and anger beforehand what difference did it end up making on the day? I think the really important thing is that this issue of voter ID won't go away. It'll be interesting to see how it pans out over time particularly at general elections with a bigger turnout. And Peter just briefly you mentioned Northern Ireland and I think we've got more votes to come there haven't we? Yes that's right so the local elections in Northern Ireland are taking place in two weeks time. The Northern Ireland office actually pushed them back by two weeks to avoid the coronation they use a more proportional voting system called the single transferable vote and it takes longer to count than
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