Voting Rights: Young People

(asked on 4th February 2015) - View Source

Question

To ask the Deputy Prime Minister, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to give 16 and 17 year olds the vote.


Answered by
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Nick Clegg
This question was answered on 10th February 2015

I am a strong advocate of lowering the voting age to 16. I look forward to a time when we have genuine cross-party consensus to give all 16 and 17 year olds across the United Kingdom the right to vote, and bring forward legislation to that effect.

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