Your article (Britons living abroad regain right to vote in UK elections as 15-year rule ends, 16 January) says the concept of a lifelong vote is not universally supported in parliament, adding that Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat life peer, “questioned how it could be right that someone who had not lived in the UK for 50 years could have a say in policies that did not directly affect them”.
We would like to add that Hansard of 23 February 2022 shows Lord Scriven welcoming the extension of the right to vote to all British citizens abroad while expressing his concern about it leaving the door open for “the use of donations from very rich people … who will fund a particular party in this country”.
