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Britain will lower its voting age to 16 in a bid to strengthen democracy

Jill Lawless

Associated Press Published: July 17, 2025 at 6:44 AM Updated: July 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM Tags: Harry Quilter-Pinner , Angela Rayner , World news , Elections , Stuart Fox FILE - A woman exits a polling station set up at St. Anne's Church, Bermondsey, in London, on July 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File) (Vadim Ghirda, Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

LONDON – Britain will lower the voting age from 18 to 16 by the next national election as part of measures to increase democratic participation, the government announced Thursday.

The center-left Labour Party pledged before it was elected in July 2024 to lower the voting a

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