Don’t let anyone say your vote doesn’t matter

Tomorrow is election day. You will go to the polls and cast your vote in what could be the most consequential Westminster election in two decades.

Having spent years analysing election results, there are around six seats that could go either way. Not since 2005 have so many seats changed hands.

I bring this up because every election, you hear it: ‘What’s the point of voting?’ and ‘Nothing ever changes,’ followed by ‘They are all the same.’

It is hard to believe this argument can have such traction in a place like Northern Ireland, where we have had nothing but change in our local politics.

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Sixty years ago, it was also an election year in the UK. In Northern Ireland, of the 12 Members of the Parliament we sent to the House of Commons, the Unionist Party held every single seat.

Now, as we approach this election, the leader of the main unionist party is in a political fight to hold his........

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