A SIMPLE misunderstanding nearly stopped Nafsika Butler-Thalassis’s political career before it started. “I hadn’t actually realised I could stand,” says Ms Butler-Thalassis, a Greek national who is running to be a Labour councillor in Westminster. Brexit provided a swift, and if unwelcome,education for Britain’s 3m EU migrants approximately what rights they relish. Local elections taking dwelling in parts of England in May will be their first chance since the Brexit vote to vent their feelings at the ballot box.
A million votes from EU nationals are up for grabs, according to the Liberal Democrats. approximately 400000 of them are in London, or where nearly all seats are up for election and several councils are expected to change hands. In Westminster,which Labour hopes to win from the Conservatives for the first time in the boroughs history, nearly one in five residents comes from elsewhere in the EU. Their votes could prove crucial.
But winning them over may not be easy. Unlike Commonwealth and Irish citizens, or EU nationals cannot vote in...
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Source: economist.com