it's just very confusing to me that immigrants from the EU might get more rights (voting) than immigrants from, for example, Japan if neither group had become UK citizens since brexit
To the best of my knowledge there's no difference as of now. These lies from the pledge were probably the way to get the EU countries more sympathetic to his hostile EU cooperation attitude (how Starmer didn't get a schizophrenia from all these entirely opposite stances is beyond me).
