Election Law

Debate between Baroness Royall of Blaisdon and Baroness Taylor of Stevenage

Tuesday 18th November 2025 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Taylor of Stevenage (Lab)]

Actually, there are a very significant number of young people who have expressed their wish to take part in the political system. From my point of view, engaging more people in our system with the education steps that I spoke about earlier, to make sure that we introduce civic education and education around the political process, will help improve trust and confidence in the system.

[Baroness Royall of Blaisdon (Lab)]

My Lords, further to my noble friend Lady Brown’s question about automatic registration, and following on from questions about young people, can my noble friend give me the assurance that at least young people voting for the first time aged 16-plus could be automatically registered? We know that voting is habit-forming and that we need participation in our democracy in order to give it strength.