Survey for anti-Brexit campaign predicts tactical vote could dent PM’s projected 44-seat majority.

Dominic Grieve says Brexit must be "defining issue" of snap December general election.

The 12 December election is on a knife edge and tactical voting could stop Boris Johnson keeping the keys to Number 10.

The PM said the Labour leader should reconsider plans to extend the franchise to EU nationals living in the UK if the vote goes ahead.

Minister says Labour proposal to enfranchise 2m EU nationals would be ‘assault on democracy’.

‘The way they have been treated over the past three years is shameful,’ says frontrunner.

But government faces demands to extend the right unilaterally beyond next year.

Just 6.2 per cent backed Boris Johnson’s party in last year’s election – throwing doubt on whether he will carry out pledge to abolish time limit on expat voting.

Reading Tories have held back in supporting a push that would allow all EU citizens the right to vote in elections after Brexit.

Four years on from Brexit, and seven and a half years after the referendum, the wounds we suffered still smart. Many were denied their democratic voting rights in the 2016 referendum. Many were denied the opportunity to vote against a Brexit government in subsequent general elections. / Yet we still had to deal with the consequences and the removal of our rights, benefits and opportunities.

Overseas voters abandoned the Conservatives in droves after Brexit but this shift in political allegiance could ultimately deter the government from keeping its promise to grant them votes for life, warns a new study by the University of Sussex.