{"id":155513,"date":"2025-07-17T10:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-england-and-northern-ireland-in-landmark-electoral-reform\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T10:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:49:48","slug":"uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-england-and-northern-ireland-in-landmark-electoral-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2025\/07\/17\/uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-england-and-northern-ireland-in-landmark-electoral-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to lower voting age to 16 in England and Northern Ireland in landmark electoral reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If passed, the proposed changes would bring the voting age to 16 across the whole of the UK and in line with Scotland and Wales, where 16-year-olds can already vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/07\/17\/uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-england-and-northern-ireland-in-landmark-electoral-reform\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If passed, the proposed changes would bring the voting age to 16 across the whole of the UK and in line with Scotland and Wales, where 16-year-olds can already vote. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":155514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}