{"id":284552,"date":"2025-07-23T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284552\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T06:50:21","slug":"sdlp-leader-claire-hanna-urges-ni-schools-to-launch-voter-registration-drive-for-16-year-olds-ahead-of-next-westminster-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/284552\/","title":{"rendered":"SDLP leader Claire Hanna urges NI schools to launch voter registration drive for 16-year-olds ahead of next Westminster election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">We should talk to pupils about rights and our civic duties, says Claire Hanna\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SDLP leader Claire Hanna\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/a107e57b-6db3-46d7-b523-bc12c2304250.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">SDLP leader Claire Hanna<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Claire Hanna is calling on schools across Northern Ireland to initiate a registration drive to ensure all pupils who will be 16 when the next Westminster election is held have a vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The SDLP is also urging the Department of Education and the Electoral Office to issue guidance to schools about the process following Keir Starmer\u2019s decision to lower the voting age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We should talk to pupils about rights and our civic duties, says Claire Hanna SDLP leader Claire Hanna&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284553,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[6416,6415,924,46796,807,1434,1144,106613,925,106614,11528,16,15719,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-284552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-alliance-party","9":"tag-claire-hanna","10":"tag-democratic-unionist-party","11":"tag-doug-beattie","12":"tag-keir-starmer","13":"tag-michelle-oneill","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-sammy-wilson","16":"tag-sdlp","17":"tag-sian-mulholland","18":"tag-sinn-fein","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-ulster-unionist-party","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114901222978035039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284552","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=284552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}