Voter ID is a blatant attempt to make it difficult for less savvy people, poorer people, ethnic minority people, people who for one reason or another suspect "the system" and who would rather stay below the radar, to vote. Let's face it, most of those people wouldn't exactly vote Tory. There is next to no evidence in this country that voter fraud is a problem. The proposal is an egregious attack on democracy and a egregious attempt to favour the Tory vote. Had there been evidence of massive voter fraud, I'd think differently. In the meantime, let's see this proposal for what it is.

So-called vaccine passports (which aren't actually that) are a different matter. There is no compulsion involved in this. You don't have to get vaccinated if you don't want to. I agree with that (I'm fully jabbed and boostered, by the way). But I don't think that unvaccinated people, who are known to be a bigger risk to the rest of us, should enjoy the unfettered right to go into crowded places. That right would be an infringement of our right to stay as safe as we reasonably can whilst still enjoying as normal a life as possible. If I ran Anfield you wouldn't get in unless you could prove that you are vaccinated up to the level that currently obtains for your age group. My choice following your choice. Why would I want to risk the health of the other 50,000 people there? Opportunistic comments from football-haters not welcome...