Pressing warning over ‘brazen’ Labour to permit EU nationals the vote

An pressing warning has been sounded over “brazen” Labour plans at hand the vote to EU nationals for common elections to resolve who governs the UK, regardless of no EU nation permitting the identical rule.

Sir Keir Starmer himself stated in 2020 that every one EU nationals ought to be given full voting rights in elections, and though no official announcement has been made, proposals are understood to nonetheless be being checked out by his occasion.

In May Labour Shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds informed the BBC there was “an argument for having them (EU nationals) involved in the process”.

The occasion can be understood to be contemplating opening the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds in a bid to extend its share of the citizens.

According to the Office for National Statistics, there are an estimated 1.4 million youngsters that might be allowed to vote underneath the plans, plus round 3.4 million EU nationals with settled standing.

EU nationals legally within the UK can vote in native and devolved elections.

At current no different EU state permits folks with out citizenship to vote of their nationwide elections, and writing in the Telegraph Daniel Hannan sounded a warning over any such transfer for the UK.

He stated Sir Keir Starmer will search to create extra Labour votes by extending the franchise, writing: “The outrageousness of these proposals means that they would need to happen right at the start of Starmer’s mandate when he enjoyed a measure of goodwill.

“Labour has demanded the raising of the age of consent from 16 to 18 for almost everything – applying for a mortgage, getting a tattoo, using a sunbed, buying cigarettes – yet, without a blush, it now wants 16-year-olds to vote.”

Mr Hannan added that what makes the plans much more “brazen” is that “EU states do not give each other’s nationals that right”.

He continued: “More to the point, we are not an EU state. Why give the vote to Bulgarians but not Bolivians or Burundians? Purely, one assumes, because Labour believes they would reward its Europhilia.”

Conservative Party Chairman Greg Hands stated the Labour plans have been an try to tug Britain again into Europe by stealth.

He informed the BBC in May: “The right to vote in parliamentary elections and choose the next UK Government is rightly restricted to British citizens and those with the closest historical links to our country.”