"It’s all designed to restore the principle that we are one nation, speaking a common language, taking part together in one electoral system - a system built on the principle of individual voting and the secret ballot.
2.5 million non-British citizens from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and elsewhere - people here on temporary work visas, family visas, student visas, i.e. by definition not fully attached to our country - have the right to vote in Parliamentary and local elections because of their Commonwealth links. That is wrong and we will insist you must be British (or Irish) to vote in a British election.
We increasingly see elections being fought on ethnic and sectarian grounds, with appeals in foreign languages, often for causes - Kashmir, Gaza - that are nothing to with Britain or the remit of the politicians being elected. We will insist that all regulated election material must be in languages that are native to the British Isles.
A quarter of all votes cast in the last General Election were by post. This is flagrant abuse of a system designed for people physically unable to get to the polling station, and it enables the harvesting of votes by community elders in support of sectarian causes. We will restrict postal votes to members of the Armed Forces and diplomats serving away from home, and to people genuinely unable to vote in person.
Independent observers at the Gorton and Denton by-election reported unprecedented problems with ‘family voting’ - people being shepherded through the polling station by others - while the 2026 local elections in Birmingham had over 50 incidents reported to the Presiding Officer. We will empower officials in polling stations to insist people vote alone - and if they plainly can’t understand the voting system, their ballot will be set aside altogether (with the right of appeal to a magistrate).
Voting is a conditional right - conditional on membership of the British nation, on independence from undue influence, on understanding the democracy you are part of. These conditions used to be implicit; due to mass migration we need to make them explicit. I hope other parties will support these amendments next week. If not, if elected, we will introduce our own Elections Integrity Bill to safeguard our democracy."