They don't want everyone to be registred to vote.
Twelve leading Tories have not tweeted about registering to vote this election campaign – backing up Labour claims that the Tories do not want mass voter registration.
While the Tories are mostly silent, Jeremy Corbyn has encouraged his followers to register to vote 16 times in the last day and a half – including retweeting enouragement from celebrities like Raheem Sterling, Stormzy and KSI.
Young people, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people and people who rent their homes are less likely to be registered to vote and more likely to vote for Labour..
We used allmytweets.net to search the tweets of 14 top Tories to see if the word “register” comes up in the context of encouragement to register to vote. They managed only two tweets between them.
Boris Johnson
No tweets
Theresa May
No tweets
Michael Gove
No tweets
Dominic Raab
No tweets
Amber Rudd
No tweets
James Cleverly
No tweets
Andrea Leadsom
No tweets
Ben Wallace
No tweets
Gavin Williamson
No tweets
Liz Truss
No tweets
Matt Hancock
No tweets
Priti Patel
No tweets
Sajid Javid
One tweet, on November 19, without a link to the voter registration page.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
One tweet, on October 30th. For context, this is the same number of times he has tweeted his own poetry and made puns about onions.
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