Voting Age - 16
Prime Minister voices support for lowering voting age to 16. The Prime Minister has confirmed his support for lowering the voting age to 16 but said such a move must go hand-in-hand with improvements in citizenship education. Speaking to MPs on the House of Commons Liaison Committee, Gordon Brown said that if schools were teaching citizenship to a high standard and 16-year-olds could "assume their British citizenship in a formal way" this would pave the way to lowering the voting age to 16. He said: "If we are going to have reform like this we need to make sure that citizenship education is good." CYP News Article
