MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: The case against votes at 16 is strong. The Starmer policy is both cynical and self-serving.
Last September, the veteran Labour MP Graham Stringer told The Mail on Sunday that 'we have to draw the line somewhere on the voting age, and I simply believe most youngsters at 16 are not mature enough to exercise that right'.
Now that Sir Keir Starmer has signalled quite clearly that he plans to bring in votes at 16 within a year of taking office , the existing electorate has a chance to judge the action before it is too late.Citizens might be wise to be cautious. Britain as a whole has a startling age versus youth divide in its politics.
It is hard to imagine that Sir Keir would pursue this policy if young people were more Right-wing than the middle-aged or the old. As for marriage, English law was recently changed, with support from all major parties, to raise the minimum age from 16 to 18 .We know that Gordon Brown has already set out plans for a dramatic reform of Parliament itself
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