Labour leader forgets voting card

Election day got off to an embarrassing start for Labour party leader Wouter Bos who took the wrong voting card to his local polling station in Amsterdam north. Watched by a whole posse of journalists, Bos had no choice but to return home and pick up the right document to allow him to vote.

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