When Sir Keir Starmer announced his new Labour government’s priorities in the King’s Speech last week, he did not include reducing the voting age to 16. But Maidstone council has voted to instruct its leader Cllr Stuart Jeffery to write to the Prime Minister, urging him to bring in legislation to give the vote to 16 and 17-year-olds. The motion, discussed at the Full Council meeting on Wednesday, July 17, was proposed by Cllr Brian Clark (Lib Dem) and seconded by Cllr Paul Wilby (Lib Dem). Cllr Clark said the move would give the vote to more than 1.5 million teenagers. He said: “Sixteen-year-o…
