Jacob Rees-Mogg drops baffling take after Kingswood by-election loss

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : "Parties that try and gerrymander end up finding their clever scheme comes back to bite them - as I dare say we found by insisting on voter ID for elections.
46% : our 'first past the post' voting system:And it's not the first time that Rees-Mogg's electoral analysis has required a double take, as back in May at the National Conservatism conference, he said his own government's rollout of voter ID backfired as a form of "gerrymandering".
43% : "We found the people who didn't have voter ID were elderly and they by and large voted Conservative, so we made it hard for our own voters and we upset a system that worked perfectly well," he said.

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