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Tories try to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands

Tory rightwingers have risked the wrath of the Celtic electorate after calling for non-British residents to be denied the vote in this year’s general election, it has been claimed.

Labour Party Irish Society chairman Matthew Doyle said that senior Tory MPs who called for the right to vote to be removed from Irish members of the electorate may in fact provide them with an incentive to cast their ballot.

Tory MPs, led by former disgraced minister Liam Fox and senior backbencher Graham Brady, have called for an emergency change in the law which would prevent up to 1.5 million non-British nationals — including 345,000 Irish-born members of the electorate — from voting in May.

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