The United Kingdom is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national elections – a move which opposition figures decry as a way to sway the electorate to benefit the left.

A further 1.5 million teenagers are expected to be enfranchised by the next election in a move which Nigel Farage has warned is an attempt to “rig the political system”. From today, 16 and 17 year ...

Britain’s government says it will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next general election in August 2029.

Councillors in West Northamptonshire last night slammed Reform UK’s plan to access council data as part of a drive that it ...

Luke Tryl, executive director of More in Common, said: “Given young voters tend to lean to the left, we should expect the ...

Labour, meanwhile, is presumably expecting 16-year-olds to be so grateful for their new right to vote that they’ll express it ...

The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’ ...

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The government will lower the voting age to 16 at the next election and tighten checks on political donations in sweeping reforms aimed at “restoring trust” in democracy and elections. In democratic ...

Eric Idle has suffered issues in the wake of Brexit, which prevented the Monty Python legend from seeing his Spamalot comedy ...

Labour will hand 16 and 17-year-olds the right to vote in the most sweeping electoral reform in more than half a century. Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner confirmed the voting age expansion will ...

The Reform UK leader has delivered a verbal blow to Labour this morning after Angela Rayner unveiled controversial new plans.