Electoral Administration Bill

I am a great supporter of the Youth Parliament but the polls that I have seen suggest that young people are not asking for the lowering of the voting age. We do not therefore support that. It is right to have younger candidates—if people can vote at 18, why should not they stand for Parliament? However, the case for lowering the voting age needs to be proven. The Liberal Democrats have some odd ideas about ages. I understand that they want to introduce drinking at 16. That beggars belief when we have such a problem with binge drinking.