Younger people’s views beyond March 2019.

You have to have parental consent in England and Wales to marry at 16 I believe.

You must be 18 to purchase tobacco.

You must be 18 to vote.

The question of whether or not 16 year old should vote because of Brexit is a one sided argument.

The question is should 16 year old be able to vote full stop.

An interesting question, particularly as it is being argued that the jihadi 'bride' who wants to come back here was too young at 15 (nearly 16) to know her own mind.

They can work ,pay tax ,get married all at 16
But not purchase alcohol until 18
The age at which children are allowed to take on adult responsibilities, are allowed to do certain activities, seems variable. Should it all be standardised?

Ridiculous ,,how can you turn the clock back by changing the voting age ? Young people are much more switched on nowadays ,they wont stand for having their rights removed and why should they.They can work ,pay tax ,get married all at 16 ...and not be able to vote for 5 more years !! Cant see that happening,at least I HOPE that wont happen its clearly wrong

In fact there was a very interesting discussion on Radio 4 a few weeks ago debating whether the voting age should go back to 21 now that barely any 18 year olds have the sort of stake in life that they had at the time they were given the vote. It was enlightening and I ended up agreeing that the voting age should go back to 21.