Pro-Europeans in the House of Lords are planning a major campaign to ensure that 16- and 17-year-olds – as well as British citizens living in other EU countries – are allowed to vote in the in/out referendum on the EU that David Cameron has promised by the end of 2017.
As was the case in Scotland’s independence referendum last year, the peers are to demand 16- and 17-year-olds be included in the franchise. “All the evidence is that the older people get, the larger the majority is for leaving the EU,” said one House of Lords source. “There is a very strong case that these young people are allowed to express their view too.”

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