Data shows only one in 10 EU citizens able to vote in some parts of BritainThe government has been accused of “shocking complacency” over the European election voting rights controversy as new data revealed that as few as one in 10 EU citizens were able to cast their vote in some areas of Britain. The return rate for the top 10 local authorities with EU citizens – Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and seven London boroughs – was 21%. In Birmingham, home to the second largest number of EU citizens in the country, the return of forms was as low as 10.56%. Such a response added “to the sense of anger and sense of exclusion” felt by EU citizens, she said. Anneliese Dodds, the Labour MP for Oxford East, said Conservative ministers had ignored the Electoral Commission’s warnings after the last EU elections in 2014 that the process needed to be easier for EU citizens.

Source: The Guardian June 04, 2019 19:30 UTC