Teachers will be asked to leave their politics at the classroom door in order to make sure pupils are not swayed on how to ...

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LONDON (Reuters) -Sixteen- and 17-year-olds celebrated their newly granted right to vote in all UK elections on Thursday, but cautioned that proper education was vital to boost turnout and protect ...

The UK government has announced that the voting age will be lowered to 16 at the next election as part of a wider effort to restore trust in and “future-proof” democracy.

If fewer people vote, our democracy becomes weaker,” he added. In 2008, Austria became the first European country to lower its national voting age to 16, with Malta adopting the change a decade ...

Calls for electoral reform are rising in the UK, where a majority of people are now in favour of a different system. It’s easy to see why. A voting system based on having one MP for one constituency, ...

Britain’s voting age last fell in 1969, when the U.K. became one of the first major democracies to lower it from 21 to 18. Many other countries, including the United States, followed suit within ...

Reform UK has added six new members to the party's decision-making board, including Greater Lincolnshire Mayor Dame Andrea ...

The United Kingdom could become one of the first European countries to lower the voting age to 16 in all national elections, in what the government is calling a landmark effort to “future-proof ...