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The New York Sun15h
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.’ ...
Starmer suspends four Labour MPs for breaches of party discipline
The suspensions will be seen as an attempt to restore discipline following a number of rebellions that has forced the ...
What would it take for a new British leftwing party to succeed?
One recent poll on support for a hypothetical Corbyn-led party – which we should take with some salt – found that its 10% ...
LBC13h
Diane Abbott becomes fifth MP to be suspended from the Labour Party
Diane Abbott has been suspended by the Labour Party pending an investigation into comments she made about the racism Jewish people experience in the UK.
Daily Post Nigeria2d
‘Labour Party in crisis, APC unsafe, PDP finished’ — APGA woos Gov Otti to return ‘home’
The National Vice Chairman, South East, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Augustine Ehiemere, has urged Abia ...
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.
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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 ...
Belfast News Letter12h
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 ...