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

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.