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Should 16 year olds have a vote?
5 Live listeners have their say with Nicky Campbell.
Keir Starmer says his manifesto pledge to lower the voting age will definitely happen while his party's in government. He said yesterday, "If you’re old enough to go out to work, if you’re old enough to pay your taxes, then you are entitled to have a say on how your taxes are spent." 16 and 17 year olds in Scotland and Wales are already able to vote in local and national elections and the Prime Minister says, "the sky hasn't fallen in" there. But are 16 year olds really ready? Nicky Campbell heard from listeners from all over the UK.