Worth noting that the rights of expats to vote currently expires after 15 years.
The bill proposes that the right of expats to votes will be extended indefinitely, subject to registration every three years (one at present) and apply to British citizens only.
Seems reasonable to me - had this been in place in 2016 it may even have changed the result of the EU referendum. Denying British citizens the right to vote in UK parliamentary elections seems (to me) to be fundamentally unjust.
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