Local elections 2023: David Davis calls for delay to new voter photo ID rules to prevent 'hundreds of thousands' being blocked from casting ballots

Local elections: Senior Tory calls for delay to new voter ID rules

David Davis says new requirements could discriminate against ‘the poor and the old’

Local elections 2023: 'It's just disenfranchisement on a grand scale' - young people's fears over new voter ID rules

Ministers say the new voting requirement is necessary to prevent fraud despite the vanishingly low number of cases that ever make it to court.

Local elections 2023: Fears voter ID will cut Barnsley turnout to new low

Just 25% of people voted in Barnsley's last poll, and councillors fear numbers will fall on 4 May.