Eurostar passenger carries stranger’s postal ballot from

Lawrence Cheung received his card too late to post home, so went to the Gare du Nord to find someone who might be travelling to the UK

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If the swing constituency of the Cities of London and Westminster is won by a single vote, it may all be down to one man who was not even eligible to vote himself.

Moritz Hauschulz, a German citizen living in London, was about to board a Eurostar train at the Gare du Nord in Paris on Thursday morning when he was approached by stranger clutching an envelope.