{"id":84108,"date":"2025-07-18T07:42:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T06:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=84108"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:35:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T07:35:50","slug":"labout-is-failing-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/18\/labout-is-failing-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour is failing voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure anyone has clamoured for a lowering of the voting age to 16, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/jul\/17\/voting-age-to-be-lowered-to-16-in-england-and-northern-ireland?utm_term=6879e2f7ffd967bfe1335cdee3d92794&amp;utm_campaign=FirstEdition&amp;utm_source=esp&amp;utm_medium=Email&amp;CMP=firstedition_email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as Labour is now promising<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have heard vast numbers of people say they would like votes that count, as proportional representation would deliver, and which Labour is not proposing.<\/p>\n<p>Why does it keep failing so spectacularly?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure anyone has clamoured for a lowering of the voting age to 16, as Labour is now promising. I have heard vast<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2025\/07\/18\/labout-is-failing-voters\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84108"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84111,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84108\/revisions\/84111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}