See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy DAVID WILCOCK, DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR Published: 14:37 BST, 28 August 2026 | Updated: 14:54 BST, 28 August 2026
People who are on holiday when there is an election should not be allowed to use a postal vote, a senior Reform politician said today as the party seeks to curb the practice.Danny Kruger said anyone wanting to cast a ballot would have to turn up to the polling station 'in person' even if it clashed with a booked trip away.Nigel Farage's party wants to massively reduce the amount of postal voting, limiting it to serving members of the armed forces, diplomats and the elderly or disabled.Of the 29 general elections held since 1918, almost half (14) have taken place in May, June and July, popular holiday months. They also have to be held within 25 working days of being called, potentially affecting people who book holidays months in advance.Asked whether the party was effectively disenfranchising people who happen to be on holiday when an election takes place, East Wiltshire MP Mr Kruger, a former Conservative shadow minister, told Times Radio: 'Absolutely not, no.'If people are not around for the day in which the election is happening, they're disenfranchising themselves.'It was put to him that holidaymakers can cast postal votes under existing rules, to which he replied: 'If you want to vote in our elections, you need to do it in person. That is a traditional principle. Danny Kruger said anyone wanting to cast a ballot should turn up to the polling station 'in person' even if it clashed with a trip away.
