{"id":269876,"date":"2025-07-17T17:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269876\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T17:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T17:29:07","slug":"northern-irelands-first-minister-welcomes-intention-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-london-evening-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/269876\/","title":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#039;s First Minister welcomes intention to lower voting age to 16 &#8211; London Evening Standard"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMixwFBVV95cUxOQm9iUURpZ1FxbHlNSDdlNTZKZk5TUG12WTh5MTU0SUJRc01aMmRDc0FvNkM0bDk3aEk0MkNGWnNUSmdQNl8xc0FjX1pZdm4zSl9ESjluY2t6ZG1UNWREcmFYQUFpUmdWbC1NY2E1SS1taEhMcGRlX1RvN1c2bWtQTEhwZy03YmpMNEcwamZOamtRcmpPd3RHaFVscXFYZ2l0RXI2YjJrODgxdnJ4eW9Ua2pCNmJjOXNtUnFrTnBIR01KZlRab3pv?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s First Minister welcomes intention to lower voting age to 16<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiV0FVX3lxTE8tSHN4NTdITWhwQUdmMFVYRHZmcjlNeDB2M25uRTZYV19PZVZEUDVNLWNFSWxzWHVXMkhtaXNMV1FpdXZuWUx3Sk9LVVpRLVdFQW5TMDVrVQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in next general election as government says it will lower voting age in UK<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxNVm1SQjhvRjVHdUpNOS1mYV9rWkJfbERRUEV1X2pjVmJoVnd0dWZQM0JPQmtuRHFqWUI1V0JXY2RKM3MzYnNtdTEta2VHWXBOXzlEaWdYV0kzUGpDVmVxdWgzb1hvb3kzUVNHbmN3ZmtPbFdnNnZCcVBlRjlkRjBqNExPbHc5YnFXaXJNeXZtYVBiYUZ0czJKSXlDd3kwaG5X?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018Britain is doomed to a Left-wing government for the foreseeable future\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Telegraph<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMicEFVX3lxTE9tQVRrMTZ1YzdvU0tCTE9hVzBTX3dXWjFIU1hENHpvMU9lMDNoUmYyRUprcGFsTy1tSjhBejgyVnRndHFEVTliVUU4LXNPbGVmdEtJM1AtaTdtdVhoLXB4T3V2SU80bXVCREhzSnduYWU?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Voting age to be lowered to 16 in UK elections<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Financial Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE5KeXBjellVVGtoTERiVGV3SnRJUHAtM1BsaTUtZ3NQamw4NHRZSXp5SXE0bkZuV0lUQW9nZUFyRGVHYXFncVIzQjA0R1FYR1FSQWxhNlZqLVhBZw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How will votes at 16 and changes to voter ID work?<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland&#8217;s First Minister welcomes intention to lower voting age to 16&nbsp;&nbsp;London Evening Standard 16 and 17-year-olds to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[9035,37913,26655,807,102536,1144,5111,12184,712,33595,11191,11390,16,15,1764,3069],"class_list":{"0":"post-269876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-british-government","9":"tag-first-minister","10":"tag-holyrood","11":"tag-keir-starmer","12":"tag-ministry-of-housing","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-parliament","15":"tag-prime-minister","16":"tag-scotland","17":"tag-senedd","18":"tag-stormont","19":"tag-teenagers","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales","23":"tag-westminster"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114869761755537644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}