The authorities's new voter ID guidelines have been an try and "gerrymander" the electoral system which "came back to bite them", a former minister has prompt.
Jacob Rees-Mogg made the feedback having supported the proposals when he was in authorities beneath Liz Truss and Boris Johnson.
The local elections this month have been the primary time that voters in England have been required to point out photograph identification with the intention to solid their ballots.
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Mr Rees-Mogg's assertion means that the reforms have been an try to spice up the Conservative Party's assist, slightly than to scale back electoral fraud - as had been stated in public.
Speaking on the National Conservatism convention in Westminster, Mr Rees-Mogg stated: "Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them, as dare I say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.
"We discovered the individuals who did not have ID have been aged and so they by and huge voted Conservative, so we made it laborious for our personal voters and we upset a system that labored completely properly."
An try to vary how individuals vote - normally by redrawing constituency boundaries - with the intention to influence the end result of elections.
He was talking following studies that Labour was contemplating plans to allow EU citizens to vote usually elections in the event that they get into authorities.
The native elections noticed the Conservatives lose more than 1,000 council seats.
The Electoral Commission stated that some people were turned away from voting resulting from not having ID, however it's not clear how many individuals have been impacted.
An preliminary report by the fee is ready to be launched in June, with a full inquiry set to be printed in September.
David Davis, the veteran Conservative MP, advised Sky News that he didn't assume the voter ID reforms have been an try and gerrymander.
"But if it were, it could turn out to be a spectacular miscalculation", he stated, as "the Conservative Party gets the predominant share of the elderly vote".
He added that "this could blow up in our face if this was the plan".
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The SNP has already criticised Mr Rees-Mogg.
The occasion's Cabinet Office spokesperson, Kirsty Blackman, stated: "Tory MP Rees-Mogg has admitted what we knew all along - that this scheme only exists as a ploy to gerrymander the next election in a desperate bid to cling to power.
"It's no shock that we have now proof that this draconian laws has pushed individuals away from voting. Brazenly undermining democracy and shutting individuals out of the electoral course of was precisely what the Tories designed these legal guidelines to do."
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