The Tory shit-rags are in full-on, spittle-flecked outrage mode over Starmer’s suggestion that the voting age could be lowered to 16, and that non-UK nationals who have settled-status here might also be permitted to vote. I had to smile wryly at the Daily Heil’s headline yesterday, screaming that it’s an attempt at ‘vote-rigging’!

Strangely, they weren’t similarly exercised by the Tories’ own adventures in ‘vote-rigging’ by moving constituency boundaries to benefit their election prospects, and introducing voter photo-ID regulations - officially to solve the (non-existent) problem of voter-fraud, but actually designed to deter young voters, who are more likely to vote for opposition parties, from taking part in elections.