{"id":42686,"date":"2026-06-12T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/42686\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:11:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:11:33","slug":"are-16-year-olds-ready-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/42686\/","title":{"rendered":"Are 16 year olds ready to vote?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Are 16 year olds ready to vote?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MgwK-DlrNpw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAre 16 year olds ready to vote?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nReporter Lewis Denison looks at government plans to lower the voting age. He was speaking to young people at Ham Youth Centre in Richmond after their learning session with The Politics Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Are 16 year olds ready to vote? Reporter Lewis Denison looks at government plans to lower the voting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[12],"tags":[16559,380,379,31,247,460,1145],"class_list":["post-42686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-itv-news","tag-general-election","tag-itv","tag-itv-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-united-kingdom","tag-voting"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}