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The Two Matts

Q&A: Voter ID, Northern Ireland and The Beatles

The Two Matts

The New World

Politics, Government, News Commentary, News

4.2577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Steph, Andrew, Nigel and Jim pose all the important questions, from voter ID to The Beatles.


Have a question? Email us at 2matts@tnepublishing.com


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journalism. Hello, welcome and happy Sunday. We've got some fantastic questions coming up and we've got

1:02.7

a lovely section I think about the Beatles coming on. We do. So stay tuned for that. But first question

1:08.4

from Steph in Milton Keynes. Thank you, Steph. Matt, do you think

1:13.2

voter ID is here to stay, given the admission by Jacob Rees-Mogg that they were indeed gerrymandering?

1:19.2

Great word. As well as the fact it resulted in many more people being excluded from voting

1:24.7

than were ever convicted of voter fraud. Great question.

1:28.1

It is a good question.

1:29.0

Yes, I do think voter ID is here to stay because it's very hard to kind of put a modernisation process, so-called, back in the box.

1:36.9

I don't think it was necessary at all.

1:39.5

I think the notion that it was introduced to stop electoral fraud is manifestly false because the scale

1:46.0

of electoral fraud in this country is minute.

1:48.6

But as Steph quite rightly mentions, Jacob Rees-Mogg, for it was he, let the cat

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