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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Adrian Zorzut

'We feel like second class citizens': Londoners fight for law change so more can vote in general election

Londoners who say they feel like second class citizens because they’re ineligible to vote despite living here for years are calling for a change to electoral law.

Eduardo Peres, 32, Lucrezia Bosio, 28, and Marigold Balquen, 43, have spent more than 40 years between them living in London and are among five million residents across the UK who cannot vote in the upcoming General Election because they are not British or Commonwealth citizens.

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