🌍 Brits Abroad: Lost Votes 🗳
Pompey Politics Podcast
Simon Sansbury and Ian 'Tiny' Morris
5.0 • 4 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
3 1/2 million British citizens living overseas are entitled to vote in UK elections, but only 200,000 are registered to do so.
- What elections are they entitled to vote in?
- How does it work?
- How long does this entitlement to vote in UK elections last?
- Why aren’t more Brits living overseas retaining their right to vote?
We hear from Mike Tuffrey & John Shardlow of the British Overseas Voters Forum to help us separate fact from fiction and understand the struggles Brits abroad face having a say in the future decisions in the UK.
More details of British Overseas Voters Forum https://bovf.org.uk
Find out how to register to vote abroad https://www.gov.uk/voting-when-living-abroad
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| 0:00.0 | Good afternoon and welcome to the Pompey Politics Podcast, where we discuss matters of international, |
| 0:05.5 | national and local political importance, but in a calm, measured and reasonable way to get to |
| 0:11.8 | the heart of the matter. I'm Ian Tiny Morris. And I'm Simon Sandsbury. And we're used to saying |
| 0:17.9 | good evening, but of course it's good afternoon because in our change to our normal program in an effort to try and make sure that one of our guests doesn't have to get up in the middle of the night to speak to us live on the pod. |
| 0:29.3 | We're streaming at 12 p.m. GMT. Obviously, days of the clocks have gone back today so hopefully that hasn't thrown |
| 0:37.5 | throwing people out but welcome welcome to the show so who we're hearing from today |
| 0:43.0 | so we've got the british overseas voters forum as some of our regular listeners will have |
| 0:49.3 | will have thought we haven't just lashed everything up because of the one hour and somehow |
| 0:54.8 | managed to get ourselves seven hours out of sync. |
| 0:58.1 | But as Simon said, we've got people from different time zones. |
| 1:01.3 | So to find the time that worked for all of us, we're at a lunchtime slot today to hear about |
| 1:07.5 | British voters and their interaction with the process overseas. |
| 1:11.6 | So a couple of guests who hopefully let know what they're talking about more than we do. |
| 1:16.6 | So do you want to do the introduction? |
| 1:17.6 | Indeed. So joining us from British Overseas Voters Forum, we've got Mike Tuffrey and John Shardlow. |
| 1:25.6 | Good afternoon and welcome. |
| 1:26.6 | Thank you very much. Thanks you very much for joining us. |
| 1:29.8 | So let's get right into it. We'll just ask you both to introduce yourselves and talk about how you got involved in the British Overseas Voters Forum. |
| 1:41.3 | And John, if I'll let you go first. Sure, thanks. So I've been |
| 1:47.3 | in Malaysia now since 2009. I'd actually been here previously for a short stint and then back |
| 1:55.5 | to the UK and then I came back again in 2009. And I got involved in B OVF, actually after the 15-year rule was about to be abolished. |
| 2:10.1 | I was actually about to lose my vote because I'd been away almost 15 years. |
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