Want to stop Nigel Farage storming the European elections? Then vote tactically - Gina Miller
09/05/2019
The remain vote may split, but we can still make our votes count and halt the Brexit party in its tracks.
Every election is determined by those who show up. / No matter how you vote, it’s important that young people turn out in this year’s European Elections. Find out who’s standing in your local area.
The site is based on latest polling data and is 'not party political', its founders said. / A new website targeted at Remain voters has been launched by data scientists in a bid to help tactical voting against the Brexit Party.
Dominic Grieve says Brexit must be "defining issue" of snap December general election.
Hundreds of thousands of us marched. Millions of us signed the petition to revoke Art50. Tens of millions of us will vote Remain in the EU election. / Remain voters will coordinate the Remain vote ourselves. We will pick a party in every area, get behind their campaign and make our vote count.
The number of remain parties in the EU elections means there is a clear and present danger that the remain vote will be split, leading to more Brexiteer MEPs being elected. Smart remain voters need to think tactically and focus on the leading remain party in their region.
Reading Tories have held back in supporting a push that would allow all EU citizens the right to vote in elections after Brexit.
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.
Overseas voters’ decisive Brexit-fuelled shift from Conservatives casts doubt on government Votes For Life pledge
04/08/2020
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.
The 12 December election is on a knife edge and tactical voting could stop Boris Johnson keeping the keys to Number 10.
Two-step process for European elections ‘mishandled’ by authorities, says the3million. / Campaigners for non-British or Irish EU citizens have made a formal complaint to the Electoral Commission amid fears many of them will be unable to vote in the UK in this Thursday’s elections for the European parliament.
Let Us Vote: New campaign launched to give everyone living in UK the right to vote in elections
04/04/2019
MPs say existing laws that stop 10 million people voting should 'shame us as a society'.
‘The way they have been treated over the past three years is shameful,’ says frontrunner.
Minister says Labour proposal to enfranchise 2m EU nationals would be ‘assault on democracy’.
EU citizens living in the UK can vote in local elections, but not in general elections. Each referendum has its own eligibility rules, which can exclude EU citizens. Yet these votes are making decisions that are very relevant to EU citizens.
Thousands of angry voters posted on Twitter using the #DeniedMyVote hashtag to report they had been turned away from polling stations, despite believing they had registered to take part.
European elections: Millions of EU citizens fear being turned away from polling booths due to red tape
21/05/2019
Government accused of failing to make clear an additional form must be filled in - just two days before voting. / Millions of EU citizens are demanding urgent action to stop them being turned away from polling booths at the European elections because of red tape.
European elections: Hundreds of EU citizens 'turned away from polling stations and denied vote'
23/05/2019
'At the polling station my British husband gets the ballot while I am simply told: "Vote in your own country!"' / Hundreds of EU citizens hoping to cast their ballots in the European elections have reported being turned away from polling stations.
European elections 2019: how to vote in MEP polls, sample ballot and what your choice means
09/05/2019
Voting in the European elections differs to voting at a general election. / The polls, which take place in Britain on 23 May and elect MEPs to the European Parliament, uses the d’Hondt system of proportional representation for voters in England, Scotland and Wales.
The BBC has been contacted by British expats from across the world who say their postal voting forms have arrived late, or not at all.
EU citizens living in the UK have told of their anger after they were unable to vote in the European elections.
Data shows only one in 10 EU citizens able to vote in some parts of Britain. / The 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.
But government faces demands to extend the right unilaterally beyond next year.