The Tories have hit on a clever method of excluding university students from voting in the next UK election. This method is simply to hold the election in October.

The problem follows from the current rules of the electoral system. It needs fixing by changing the rules.

Part of the cause of the problem is the ID requirement that the Tories introduced recently. ID requirements in the US are imposed by right-wing parties for the sake of voter suppression, and the UK is no different.