I wasn't aware that working in the black economy disqualified you from voting, Nigel. Super-rich tax-evaders with armies of accountants, the same. And I don't think I've ever said that anyone should have to pass an intelligence test before they can vote. So no about-turn from me. There will be many law-abiding members of ethnic minority groups who are suspicious
of any move by the state to make carrying ID compulsory, just as there are many such who are vaccine-hesitant. To you and me, their concerns may seem groundless, but there is no law against having groundless concerns. If there was evidence of large-scale voter fraud, I'd be with you. But there isn't, so it's right to suspect the motives of those who want to bring in measures that would have the potential to make it harder to vote for those at the bottom of the ladder to combat a non-existent problem.