We are just three days away from our parliamentary debate on #DeniedMyVote (If parliament is not shut down).

That is why it is important that we can start mobilising our supporters today. 

We want to use this opportunity to make the maximum impact on policy-makers. We also want a commitment that #DeniedMyVote will never happen again. The government must confirm that it will not legislate to remove the voting rights of EU citizens in local elections post Brexit.

Chip in £5, £10, £25 to our campaign today - it  makes a difference

Lyn Brown MP (Lab. West Ham) is leading the debate. We have been working with her office to provide detailed evidence  and case studies about the way in which the UK government, in our view, deliberately allowed a situation to develop which resulted in over 1 million EU citizens and Britons abroad being disenfranchised.

We are also expecting many of the MPs who are long-standing supporters of our campaign to take part, incl.:

Catherine West MP (Lab., Hornsey and Wood Green),

Joanna Cherry QC MP (SNP, Edinburgh SW),

Mike Gapes MP (Change UK, Ilford South),

and Tom Brake MP (Lib.Dem., Carshalton and Wallington).

Click here for a full list of the MPs who signed our Early Day Motion

It would be helpful if you could contact your MP (also via social media) to inform them of the debate and to ask them to take part.

You can use  this Tweet to RT or forward to your MP

If you have been directly affected, either because you did not receive your UC1 form (if you are an EU citizen in the UK) or because your postal ballot papers arrived too late (if you are a UK citizen abroad), and you would like your case raised, please contact us at:

bureau@neweuropeans.net

We will do our best to make sure your case is mentioned in the debate.

If Johnson shuts down parliament tomorrow, please visit our website at www.neweuropeans.net for for further information.

#NeverAgain

One of the key outcomes we want to achieve from our campaign, is a commitment from the Government and from all political parties, that the rights of all EU citizens to vote and to stand as candidates in local elections will be safeguarded if the UK leaves the European Union.

These rights include the right to vote and to stand as candidates in elections in the UK to district and city councils, city mayors, police and crime commissioners and to the devolved legislatures.

Currently these rights are anchored in UK law, so the Government would have to legislate to remove them.

It would be a democratic outrage if having denied the vote to EU citizens in the EU elections through a systematic failure to ensure they were registered to vote, the government then moved to disenfranchise EU citizens from local elections.

That is why our campaign for a public inquiry into #DeniedMyVote is also a campaign for guarantees of the franchise for EU citizens going forward.

UK urged to guarantee rights of EU citizens in local elections post Brexit

We also want to see the abolition of the 15 year rule which bars UK citizens abroad from voting in the UK after a 15 year absence and measures put in place to improve the delivery of postal ballots to overseas electors.

Our team is working round the clock to prepare the ground for Wednesday's debate.

If you can chip in £5, £10, or £25 to support our work, it makes a difference It means we can continue to do our best to secure a result.

Please click on this link to contribute.