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A UK The following national elections reduces the age of voting from 18 to 16 – this is a step that opposition figures decipher as a way to leak up the electorate to benefit the left.
The UK government, controlled by the Labor Party, announced on Thursday that the 16th and 17-year-old age would gain the right to vote within other new “seismic changes”. Other electoral reforms include extension of the voter identifier on bank cards, the publication of new rules designed to “protect against foreign political intervention and abuse by companies”, as well as strengthening laws on restriction of foreign donations on British political parties.
In the accompanying document, which is included in the statement, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Reiner said that “a decline in confidence in our institutions and the democracy itself became critical, but the government’s responsibility to overcome it and restore our democracy, as well as generations before us.”
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British Prime Minister Kire Starmer speaks at the civil society summit in London, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Frank Augustin, pool)
“I think it’s really important for 16- and 17-year-old children to vote because they are old enough to go to work, they are old enough to pay taxes, so pay. And I think if you pay, you need to say that you want your money to spend what way to go,” – told reporters Thursday. “I am very pleased that we can bring younger people into our democracy.”
“Young people are already contributing to society, working, paying taxes and serving in the army. This is right, they can say about the issues that affect them,” Rener wrote on X. The Deputy Prime Minister also developed in the statement, adding: “We cannot accept our democracy for granted and defending our elections.
The minimum service age in the British Armed Forces is 16, but those who have not reached the age of 18 are required by parents or guardians and cannot be deployed into the fight zone.
British opposition politicians have accused the Labor Party of trying to manipulate the electorate in their favor, reducing the age of voting.
“Why does this government think that the 16 -year -old can vote, but not allow to buy a lottery ticket or alcoholic beverage, get married, get married either to go to war, or even to speak in the elections that they vote?” Member of Parliament (MP) Paul Holmes, Conservative, said in the House of Commons on Thursday. “Isn’t the government’s position about the age of maturity are just hopelessly confused?”
Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of State for alignment, Housing and Community Angela Reener arrives on Downing Rate to attend the weekly meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in London, Great Britain on July 15, 2025. (Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadol via Getty Images)
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Holmes accused the work of “press management” and asked if the bank cards will allow – which do not include photos – as a form of voter ID, will blow up safety measures in the ballot box.
Nigel Farage, Leader Right Reformation of the UK party, He said that giving 16-year-old children the right to vote “is an attempt to establish a political system.”
“The problem is that not only half of the young people do not want voting, but they should stay at school until they are 18,” said the Pazhaz in the video shared by X. ” educational institution Complete left prejudice, full of prejudice against reform, and, frankly, if at school from 16 to 18 years old they will be able to vote, we must make sure that our education system teaches children to produce our thoughts and not put them on. ”
The change still requires the approval of the parliament, but became the promise of work from the Labor Party, which won the election last year and has control over the majority. The following general elections are in 2029.
Reiner noted that 16- and 17-year-old children could already vote in Scotland and Wales in local elections and in the parliamentary elections in the countries. Minimum Age of voting In local elections in England and Northern Ireland 18.
British Prime Minister Kire Starmer, left, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz conducted a press conference during a visit to Airbus Factory to Stephenage, England, on Thursday, July 17, 2025. (Stefan Rousseau/pool through AP)
In the opinion in British newspaper “The Times”, Reiner, who was a single mother at the age of 16, said the change makes 1.6 million 16-year-olds who have the right to vote in the UK, in which the population is about 68 million.
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“It is about justice and transparency and giving the young fate in the future of our country, bringing them to our communities, not excluding them,” Reiner wrote. “It is about providing our manifesto to committing votes at the age of 16. But it is also about strengthening our electoral system so that it is suitable for the 21st century – because we cannot perceive our democracy for granted.”