UK to lower voting age to 16 in major electoral reform

The United Kingdom is to lower its voting age in general elections from 18 to 16, giving the country one of the lowest voting ages in the world in what the government says is a bid to “modernise our democracy”.

Al Jazeera’s Sonia Gallego reports from London.

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