Michael Gove blasts Keir Starmer's bid to 'rig' elections

Michael Gove last night told Keir Starmer to answer claims that he wants to undermine Brexit by granting EU citizens the vote.

In a strongly-worded letter, the Cabinet minister challenged Labour's leader to respond to the charge that the policy would 'rig' future elections.

He said Sir Keir was seeking to 'downgrade the ultimate privilege of British citizenship' by letting migrants help decide who runs the UK.

Mr Gove also accused him of hypocrisy for planning to lower the voting age to 16 despite having argued only recently that adulthood should begin at 18 when it came to changing gender.

And he pointed out that the last Labour government increased to 18 the legal age for everything from buying cigarettes to leaving school.