Should the voting age be lowered to 16?
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By Barney Stephenson
In 1969, Harold Wilson’s Labour government lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Fifty years on, some believe the time has come to lower the voting age to 16.
The idea is not a new one. It was first rejected by Parliament back in 1999 and again in 2005.
But in 2014, 16- and 17-year-olds were granted a vote in Scotland’s independence referendum.
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