Fewer than 200,000 Britons living abroad apply to vote in UK election

A Briton living abroad posts their postal vote in a French postbox. Photograph: Daniel and Flossie White/Alamy

Fewer than 200,000 of the estimated 3.5 million British people living abroad for more than 15 years have applied to vote in the UK general election despite the change in law in January returning their right to participate in the ballot.

But those who have already registered are determined to make their mark.