This petition was submitted during the 2015 to 2017 Parliament
Rejected petition Make UK Politics a mandatory part of Secondary curriculum
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The UK voting public should be well informed on the political system they are encouraged to vote in before they reach the age of 18. The recent referendum has shown a large majority do not clearly understand how the UK political system functions, nor its structures of government.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/123322
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