Extend the franchise for overseas citizens – but let’s have votes at 16 tooLast week’s Queen’s Speech – the legislative agenda for the next year – contained an interesting and largely overlooked reform in the ‘small print’ (see pages 62-63): the government is planning to scrap the arguably...Posted 24 May 2016
It’s time 16 and 17 year olds got the voteLast month saw a big victory for campaigners for a fairer franchise: the House of Lords supported giving 16 and 17-year-olds a vote in the EU referendum. Votes at 16 is now in the Bill. But...Posted 04 Dec 2015
Why Ruth Davidson supports votes at 16The following is republished with the kind permission of Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson. It is one part of Giving 16 and 17 Year Olds the Vote – The Tory Case, a publication from the Tory...Posted 24 Jun 2015
Scotland leads the way on votes at 16Yesterday, two very different things happened around the same issue in Scotland and England. At 4:22pm in Westminster, during a debate on the EU Referendum Bill, MPs voted 310-265 against giving 16 and 17 year...Posted 19 Jun 2015