Huge spike in voter registrations proves that badgering people on Twitter works

If you've been wearily muting ever minor celebrity urging people to register to vote over the past few weeks, sighing and saying aloud "No point mate, it'll never work" then the joke's on you: it worked. Yesterday, around 470,000 people registered online for a say in next month's General Election as the registration deadline hit, according to this breakdown.That's 300,000 more people than the previous 24-hour record. You've only been able to register online since June 2014, but over 7