Rachel Maclean, a junior levelling up minister, faced criticism from MPs after failing to answer basic questions on how the controversial new system would work.
The Sheffield South East MP asked the minister if it is"the government's intention" that information will be collected so the total numbers who attend a polling station and are denied a vote because they haven't got ID will be counted.
Several opposition MPs pressed her on the issue, raising concerns about the policy and the need to assess its impact.But Ms Maclean hit back accusing them of"making some kind of shrill and hyperbolic claims about this misguided idea that this is somehow voter suppression". He said the letter informed him that greeters would not count the numbers of those they turned away, meaning that two sets of data would be collected - from polling stations with a greeter system and those without.He said:"How can that be a sensible and co-ordinated information collection to show what the impact of this measure actually is?"
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