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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Christopher McKeon

Sixteen-year-olds to be allowed to vote as ministers set out reforms

The next general election will see 16-year-olds able to vote for the first time, ministers have confirmed in wide-ranging plans to “modernise our democracy”.

Labour’s manifesto committed the party to lowering the voting age for parliamentary elections to 16, in line with Scottish and Welsh elections.

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