Petition Mandatory Politics lessons in secondary schools and lower the voting age to 16.

We are a group of A-Level Politics students who strongly believe that all 16 year olds should have the opportunity to vote, but need the education in order to participate effectively.
Over 100 000 16/17 year olds voted in the Scottish referendum demonstrating a keen interest in political issues.

This petition is closed This petition ran for 6 months

85 signatures

Progress of the petition towards its next target: 85 of 10,000 signatures required to get a government response

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Date closed 12 April 2016
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