Article 4WF23 'Politically we don't count': EU citizens fear for future in UK

'Politically we don't count': EU citizens fear for future in UK

by
Jon Henley Europe correspondent
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Most EU nationals living in the UK cannot vote - leaving many feeling like pawns in a political game

In a threadbare youth centre in Bradford, Vie Clerc, who got off a Eurostar from Paris 19 years ago with 50 in her pocket and never left, laments the irony. "It's the first one I'll actually be able to vote in," she said. "Shame I've never felt less British."

In a bright mezzanine office in Bristol, Denny Pencheva, who landed in 2013 from Bulgaria via Copenhagen and now teaches at the university, bemoans politicians "who use us to score their political points, but don't actually have to consider us - because politically, we don't count".

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