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Calls for reduction in the voting age to 16
Geoff Riley
18th July 2018
Under current legislation, a person must be 18 or over to vote in elections to the UK Parliament. This note from the House of Commons Parliament Research department gives details of calls for a change in the law to reduce the voting age to 16 in recent years.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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