Backlash brews as Starmer is accused of a plot to reverse Brexit and 'rig' the polls by giving millions of European workers in the UK and British teenagers the vote

 

• Keir Starmer is planning to allow Europeans in UK to choose MPs for first time
• The Labour party leader also wants to reduce Britain's voting age from 18 to 16 
• Ministers accused Sir Keir of wanting to 'drag Britain back into the EU by stealth'

Sir Keir Starmer has been accused of a cynical plot to 'rig' elections by giving millions of EU citizens and teenagers the right to vote.

 

Labour's leader is planning the biggest increase of the franchise in a century by allowing Europeans who have settled in Britain to choose MPs for the first time.

 

He also wants to reduce the voting age from 18 to 16, and senior opposition figures and potential coalition partners are calling on him to scrap the first-past-the-post electoral system.

 

Labour MPs defended the plans by saying the opposition wants to 'strengthen our democracy'.

 

But ministers pointed out that expats do not have the right to vote in EU countries' polls and said the changes would damage the status of British citizenship.

 

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