I'm very pleased to hear that for you, Mike. Let's move on. So—[Laughter.]—the issue is that those problems have been exposed, and we must take action to address them, and that's precisely what the UK Government Elections Bill seeks to do. It will stop the theft of people's postal votes by requiring all voters to present photo ID, and it will address weaknesses in the postal and proxy vote arrangements.

Now, with regard to photo ID in order to vote, the Minister has railed against the position, not today, but on other occasions as well. Yet it was his own party that legislated to introduce voter ID in Northern Ireland, and we applaud you for taking that bold step. And I understand, even, that even in Labour Party selection meetings, very often, people are asked to bring photo ID to prove that they can vote for their appropriate election candidate. The fact is that voter ID is not the threat that the Labour Party make it out to be, 98 per cent of the electorate already have some sort of suitable photographic identification, and for those who don't, the UK Elections Bill provides for a free and optional voter card that will be available, as is already the case in Northern Ireland. The Electoral Commission has already said that since the introduction of photo ID in Northern Ireland, there have been no reported cases of impersonation. Voters' confidence that elections are well run in Northern Ireland is consistently higher than anywhere else in the UK.

So, the reality is that photo ID is already required in most Western democracies, including every single country in Europe with the exception of Denmark, where it has to be available only on request. So, it's not just the UK Government that wants voter ID to be introduced either. The Electoral Commission has backed it, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has said that its absence in UK elections is a security risk. Now, I want to see that security risk addressed, and so should every single Member of this Senedd.

Now, with regard to proxy and postal vote changes, again, these are perfectly sensible. Why would anyone who believes in free and fair elections want to stop banning party campaigners from handling postal votes altogether with only limited exceptions, making that a criminal offence? Why would anyone want to stop preventing postal vote harvesting by limiting the number of postal votes that a person may hand in on behalf of other people? Why would anybody want to stop extending secrecy provisions that currently protect voting in polling stations to absent voting, making it an offence for a person to attempt to find out or reveal who a postal voter has chosen to vote for, and why would anyone want to stop requiring those who've registered for a postal vote to reaffirm their identities by reapplying every three years?