Read our privacy policy Thanks for signing up to theView from Westminster email {{ #verifyErrors }} {{ message }} {{ /verifyErrors }} {{ ^verifyErrors }} Something went wrong. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }}Sir Keir Starmer has announced plans to lower the voting age to 16 – as Labour and the Tories kicked off the first weekend of the general election campaign. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer looks on during a Labour general election campaign event in Stafford ( Reuters )Following a morning meeting with local veterans in his constituency in which he warned the world was becoming more dangerous, the PM’s whereabouts on Saturday afternoon were unclear. “They have effectively got off the bus, because they don’t think the bus is going anywhere, I do think that’s significant,” he said. The party leader was out doorstepping in education secretary Gillian Keegan’s constituency of Chichester, where he hopes to flip the Tory majority on 4 July.

Source: The Times May 25, 2024 21:25 UTC