EU citizens living in UK ‘prevented from voting in European Parliament elections’

Many thousands of EU citizens living in the UK were prevented from voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections because of onerous registration requirements and made to feel “second class”, a campaign group says. File Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Many thousands of EU citizens living in the UK were prevented from voting in the 2019 European Parliament elections because of onerous registration requirements and made to feel “second class”, a lawyer representing a campaign group has told judges in the UK.

The3million, which campaigns for an estimated three million EU citizens living in the UK, has taken legal action against the British Cabinet Office after complaining that people were told voting forms had been “lost”, and were unfairly turned away from polling stations on May 23 2019.