Christopher Chope
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Votes for 16 and 17-year-olds
Christopher Chope Excerpts(11 years, 11 months ago)
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Wayne David
For me, the bottom line is that, if a young person aged 16 can give full consent to medical treatment, leave school and enter work or training, pay income tax and national insurance, obtain tax credits and welfare benefits in their own right, consent to sexual relationships, get married or enter a civil partnership, change their name by deed poll—
Wayne David
I am just coming to the end. They may also join the armed forces and become a company director. Surely, if all those things apply, logically, why should voting be exempt?