The United Kingdom is lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 before the next national elections – a move which opposition figures decry as a way to sway the electorate to benefit the left.

The United Kingdom is moving forward on plans to lower the voting age to 16, as well as other changes to voting and the ...

The best way of tilting the axis of the British political system might be to pledge to smash it up. In a divided country, voters are united in the belief that the government has handled Brexit badly: ...

As the recent European Parliament elections underlined, such a plebiscite could well see the United Kingdom vote to leave. As the two-party system has declined, British politics has become more ...

The United Kingdom is unusual in having no single written constitutional document that can be enforced by the courts. Instead it has a political constitution, which relies heavily on norms and ...

LONDON: The British government said on Thursday (Jul 17) it planned to give 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all ...

A new democracy for the UnitedKingdom Right for Britons to put topics on political agenda, written constitution, end absolute power, how abuses such as financial engineering could be curtailed An ...

Class allegiance still shapes political loyalty more in the United Kingdom than it does in the United States, but the British system has seen the same "class inversion" that has reshaped American ...

In 1922, the predominantly Catholic parts of Ireland left the United Kingdom, ... a near-miss that sent shockwaves through the U.K. political system.

In Britain, the political system is broken in ways that are more easily fixed. When reality shifts, people change their minds —and someone as incompetent as Liz Truss gets booted from office in ...