Backbench Business — Voting Age

Part of Bill Presented — Marriage (Same Sex Couples) – in the House of Commons at 11:29 am on 24 January 2013.

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Photo of Bob Stewart Bob Stewart Conservative, Beckenham 11:29, 24 January 2013

I have been in command of soldiers aged 16 and 17 who are desperate to go on operations but are not allowed to because this country considers them still to be children. The hon. Gentleman is suggesting that a 16-year-old should be able to vote—presumably to send our soldiers to war— but cannot go to war themselves until they are 18. Extraordinary!