{"id":6979,"date":"2025-07-18T20:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6979\/"},"modified":"2025-07-18T20:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T20:17:07","slug":"is-the-voting-system-in-the-uk-fair-elections-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/6979\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the voting system in the UK fair? | Elections News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government wants to lower the voting age, saying it aims to modernise UK democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The United Kingdom is set to make an historic change to its electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>The government has announced a plan to lower the voting age from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/7\/17\/uk-to-lower-voting-age-to-16-in-major-electoral-reform\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">18 to 16<\/a>. It says the move will modernise and strengthen British democracy.<\/p>\n<p>But critics say this is more than just democratic reform.<\/p>\n<p>So, what\u2019s really behind the decision? Is this about democratic renewal or short-term political gain? And has lowering the voting age worked elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>Presenter: Adrian Finighan<\/p>\n<p>Guests:<\/p>\n<p>Afzal Khan \u2013 Labour Member of Parliament in the UK<\/p>\n<p>Yannis Koutsomitis \u2013 European affairs analyst<\/p>\n<p>Alex Deane \u2013 Political analyst and conservative commentator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Government wants to lower the voting age, saying it aims to modernise UK democracy. The United Kingdom is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[461,591,59,57,58,50,229,1917,3851,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-6979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-gb","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-greatbritain","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-show-types","16":"tag-tv-shows","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}