The Labour Party vowed to lower the voting age to 16 years old in a blueprint for the party's next general election manifesto.
Even some members of the Labour Party have come out against the idea, with MP Graham Stringer saying: “We have to draw the line somewhere on the voting age, and I simply believe most youngsters at 16 are not mature enough to exercise that right.”
“I’m afraid that were the Labour leader to put this forward, it would smack of party political self-interest on the basis that young people are more likely to vote Labour or Liberal Democrat than Conservative.”the plan to lower the age of voting as “utter madness”, saying: “Most 16-year-olds haven’t a clue about politics, taxation, legislation, government policies, or their implications and don’t work. Sunak doesn’t deserve to win, but on this idea alone, Labour has to be kept from office.
A Labour spokesman defended the idea, saying: “At the age of 16, many young people are paying taxes, working, and engaging in all parts of society — it is right that they get a say in who governs them.” The Labour Party has, however, apparently backtracked on the notion of allowing EU citizens to vote in British elections, despite leader Sir Keir Starmer previously describing the plan to give millions of European nationals the right to vote as “common sense”. Unlike the plan to give 16-year-olds the franchise, the proposal to extend it to EU citizens was not included in their manifesto blueprint.
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