Leading pollsters have suggested Labour‘s plan to lower the voting age to 16 could “backfire” as Reform UK and Jeremy Corbyn‘s new party could end up gaining the most from the policy instead.
The “seismic” move announced by the government as part of a raft of measures last month would allow around 1.5 million more teenagers to cast a ballot, bringing UK-wide elections in line with Scotland and Wales by the time the country next goes to the polls, due by the summer of 2029 at the latest.
