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With months until key elections, thousands have been purged from Britain's electoral register

The government ignored Electoral Commission advice to delay its voter registration system change, and thousands risk being denied a vote.

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The equivalent of almost two parliamentary constituencies of voters have “disappeared” from London’s electoral register, two months after the government rushed through changes to the way we register to vote.

These figures are based on information that HOPE not hate has received from 10 out of London’s 33 electoral services.