Half of 16 and 17-year-olds don’t think they should be allowed to vote despite Labour’s plans to lower the voting age, a poll for ITV News has found.
The poll of 500 sixteen and seventeen-year-olds by Merlin Strategy found that 49% didn’t think the voting age should be lowered to 16, while 51% said it should.
Only 18% of the young people surveyed said they would definitely vote if there was an election tomorrow.
Lewis Denison reports.
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