Labour’s votes for teenagers ruse will backfire
Our economy is on the rocks, legal and illegal immigration remains out of control, public services are creaking, and a looming debt crisis is on the horizon. But fear not. Labour has announced its big idea for turning around Britain’s fortunes: votes for children. It is naive to assume that 16-year-olds will be more attracted to Starmer’s technocratic government than Reform’s radicalism Around 1.5 million 16 and 17-year-olds will be able to vote at the next general election, under government plans to lower the voting age. Keir Starmer says older teenagers are ‘old enough to go out to work, they are old enough to pay taxes’ and, so, they are old
