UK government to lower voting age to 16 before next national election despite strong conservative opposition

The United Kingdom is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national elections – a move which opposition figures decry as a way to sway the electorate to benefit the left. 

The U.K. government, controlled by the Labour Party, announced Thursday that 16- and 17-year-olds will be given the right to vote as part of other new “seismic changes.” Other election reforms include extending voter ID to bank cards, issuing new rules meant to “guard against foreign political interference and abuse of campaigners,” and tightening laws restricting foreign donations to British political parties. 

In an accompanying policy paper included in the announcement, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said that “declining trust in our institutions and democracy itself has become critical, but it is the

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