Keir Starmer’s plan to extend the right to vote in a general election to foreign nationals has been politically polarising. Many see it is a fundamental democratic right; others have seized on it as a leftwing plot to reverse Brexit.
The Conservative party chair, Greg Hands, accused the Labour leader of a plot to “rig the electorate”, while his predecessor in the role, Nadhim Zahawi, claimed it was a move to “soften the nation” to get the UK back into the EU.
