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Conservative Party ‘racially profiled’ 10 million voters

Tories bought tools to work out voters’ race and religion before 2019 election.

Conservative Party ‘racially profiled’ 10 million voters
The Conservative party paid to find out the race of ten million voters. | Image: Shiva Rajbhandari
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The Conservative Party has been accused of racially profiling millions of voters following the publication of a report by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

The report by the ICO alleged that, before the 2019 general election, the party purchased data sets that guessed a person’s country of origin, race and religion based on their name.

This data was applied to the names of 10 million voters.