High-skill Indian migrants in UK may vote against Labour

IANS Friday 20th April, 2007

As Britain takes more steps to tighten its immigration system, thousands of highly skilled migrants from India and other non-European Union countries adversely affected by recent changes to immigration rules are preparing to vote against Labour candidates during the May 3 local elections in England, Scotland and Wales.

The skilled migrants from India are among a million migrants who have voting rights in the UK, according to a law passed in 1918. The law allows people from Commonwealth countries, including those with large communities here, such as Australia, Bangladesh, India, Nigeria and Pakistan are entitled to vote in both local and general elections in the UK. [Read more]