Voting Age (Comprehensive Reduction) Bill [HL]

My Lords, I welcome the fact that the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, has brought forward the Bill. It is...

My Lords, I, too, strongly support the Bill and am delighted to take the opportunity today to put...

I believe that young people should be allowed to vote at the ages of 16 and 17, a view which I ca...

My Lords, I thank the noble Lord, Lord Tyler, for bringing us to the point of a Second Reading of...

My Lords, as others have said, central to this debate is the question of maturity: whether a youn...

My Lords, speaking in the gap, I should like briefly to turn this into a debate. We have had a se...

Young of Hornsey!

If someone mentioned her, I apologise for missing the reference. She is an extraordinary young wo...

My Lords, I do not doubt the noble Lord’s passion for the young or his experience. However, he is...

My Lords, this has been a high-quality debate and I thank all those who have taken part. I have t...

I meant social security.

All thoughts of shadows of the dominant state emerged there. For those of us who are concerned ab...

My Lords, this has been a very high-quality debate, and I am enormously grateful to all those who...