Elections Bill
Debate between Lord Adonis and Baroness Noakes
Lords Hansard - Part 1
&
Committee stage
Monday 21st March 2022
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Monday 21st March 2022
(3 years ago)
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Baroness Noakes (Con)
I am sorry that I do not have chapter and verse with me, but the Electoral Commission has called for voter ID since 2014. As I said, Northern Ireland has used it for nearly 40 years.
I find it quite extraordinary that polling station procedures in Great Britain are virtually the same today as they were when I started voting 50 years ago. It is quite remarkable.
Lord Adonis (Lab)
If the system works well, why change it? I thought it was a good Conservative principle that, when it is not necessary to change, it is necessary not to change.
Baroness Noakes (Con)
The world has changed very considerably in the past half a century.