NEWS Shopper readers have given a firm 'no' to a call for the voting age to be lowered to 16.

The Votes at 16 coalition, which includes the British Youth Council and Electoral Reform Society, is campaigning for 16-year-olds to be given the right to vote.

It says there were nearly 25,000 16 and 17-year-olds in the Bexley and Bromley and Greenwich and Lewisham constituencies who were not able to vote in the London Assembly and mayoral elections.

There is also to be a private members' bill in the House of Commons in the summer calling for the voting age to be 16 in all UK elections.

News Shopper website users, however, do not think it would be a good idea.

In an online poll just 15.2 per cent of people said the voting age should be lowered.

The other 84.8 per cent of voters rejected the idea.

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