The next general election will see 16-year-olds able to vote for the first time, ministers have confirmed in wide-ranging ...

MP Diane Abbott has been suspended from the Labour Party for a second time after she doubled down on comments about racism she had ...

The U.K. plans to lower the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national election, with opposition claiming Labour is trying to sway the electorate.

Ms Abbott was suspended in 2023 after writing a letter to the Observer comparing racism experienced by people of colour with ...

The real winners in 2024 though, certainly in terms of bang for their respective bucks, are Reform and the Lib Dems, both of ...

Diane Abbott was suspended by Labour for the second time in three years today for claiming anti-Semitism is less serious than ...

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.

Should 16 and 17 year olds in England be voting in the next general election - and what could Labour do to be in with the ...

The United Kingdom could become one of the first European countries to lower the voting age to 16 in all national elections, ...

The leader of the opposition Reform party, Nigel Farage, is calling the plan an ‘attempt to rig the political system.’ ...

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz signed a landmark treaty on Thursday that pledges to tighten defense ties, as European nations try to protect Ukraine, and ...