{"id":272958,"date":"2025-07-18T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272958\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:41:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:41:10","slug":"is-the-voting-system-in-the-uk-fair-elections-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/272958\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the voting system in the UK fair? | Elections News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government wants to lower the voting age, saying it aims to modernise UK democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom is set to make an historic change to its electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>The government has announced a plan to lower the voting age from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/17\/uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-major-electoral-reform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">18 to 16<\/a>. It says the move will modernise and strengthen British democracy.<\/p>\n<p>But critics say this is more than just democratic reform.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s really behind the decision? Is this about democratic renewal or short-term political gain? And has lowering the voting age worked elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afzal Khan \u2013 Labour Member of Parliament in the UK<\/p>\n<p>Yannis Koutsomitis \u2013 European affairs analyst<\/p>\n<p>Alex Deane \u2013 Political analyst and conservative commentator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government wants to lower the voting age, saying it aims to modernise UK democracy. The United Kingdom is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[748,33,393,299,4884,12,1144,285,712,10471,10472,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-272958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uk","8":"category-united-kingdom","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-elections","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-northern-ireland","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-scotland","18":"tag-show-types","19":"tag-tv-shows","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114876178951761111","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272958","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=272958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}