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U.K.’s Labour Party Looks To Shore Up its Dwindling Electoral Odds by Lowering Voting Age to 16
The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’ ...
UK Labour suspends four lawmakers over welfare rebellion
Britain's Labour Party suspended four of its lawmakers on Wednesday for organising plans to vote against the government over ...
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Labour position ‘hopelessly confused’ on giving vote to 16-year-olds
Paul Holmes asked in the Commons why the Government plans to lower the voting age while 16 and 17-year-olds are not allowed ...
New rows over old divisions in Labour before Westminster MPs take summer break
British prime minister Keir Starmer attempts to reassert authority but risks reopening wounds by suspending rebel MPs ...
Brian Leishman rules out joining the SNP or Jeremy Corbyn's new party after Labour suspension
EXCLUSIVE: The Alloa and Grangemouth MP told the Record he is "committed rock solid to the Labour Party" and wants the whip ...
Opinion
Labour giving under-18s right to vote is profoundly wrong and the reason is really simple
WHEN polling day dawns at the next general election, some 1.6million new voters will have been added to the electoral rolls. Hundreds of thousands of bright-eyed 16 and 17-year-olds will be ...
What happened the last time a Labour government opted to lower the voting age?
There are parallels between the political conditions which faced Harold Wilson and Sir Keir Starmer’s current challenges.
Starmer’s suspension of ‘rebel’ MPs risks alienating his party in a way he can’t afford
The claim is that the four rebels and three MPs who lost envoy status are persistent rebels, but this is an overreaction. In ...