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The British government announced Thursday it will lower the national voting age from 18 to 16, marking the most significant ...

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The British government said Thursday it plans to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote in general elections, a landmark change ...

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The voting age change is likely to prove contentious, with critics previously arguing it is self-serving as newly-enfranchised teenagers are seen as more likely to support the centre-left Labour party ...

UK's plan for big change comes 6 decades after earlier reduction from 21 to 18; India did that in 1989, through the 61st Amendment to the Constitution ...

The government said the proposed changes were part of an effort to boost public trust in democracy and would align voting rights across Britain.

The UK plans to lower the voting age to allow 16- and 17-year-olds to participate in the next general election, as part of a package of electoral reforms that also include clamping down on political ...