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Sean Seddon Over to a question on lowering the voting age, something Sir Keir Starmer has previously spoken supportively about and was included in the Labour party's manifesto in both 2015 and 2017.
Live reporter When pressed on this specific point, the Labour leader says: "Yes, I want to see 16 and 17 year olds voting".
We've been covering Michael Gove's announcement that he'll be stepping down as an MP ahead of the general election. He explains that if these young people are able to go out and work - and if they are working, he notes, they are also paying taxes - they should also be able to vote.
But if you cast your memory back, it was when David Cameron returned the Conservatives to power in He adds that these age groups are also able to sign up for for the Army.
2010 that it seemed his friend Michael Gove was earmarked for a top job. "If you serve in your armed forces you ought to be able to vote."
The former journalist earned a reputation as a reforming
minister as education secretary, pushing through changes which often proved
controversial with the help of his close advisor Dominic Cummings.
He was moved to chief whip in 2014, which was
widely seen as a demotion for publicly clashing with then Home Secretary
Theresa May.
Gove stunned Cameron a year later by defying him to back
Leave in the EU referendum campaign, demonstrating a propensity for
tactics-over-loyalty politicking that many will forever associate with him.
He played a central role in the Brexit campaign and a Boris
Johnson government with Gove in a key job looked likely – until he dramatically
knifed his ally, calling him unfit to be prime minister.
Instead, Gove declared, he was done with being the power
behind the throne and was running for the leadership himself.
It backfired spectacularly and the eventual winner Theresa May promptly banished him to the backbenches.
Gove was brought back into government after the 2017 election and launched a second ill-fated tilt at the leadership in 2019.
He was seen as a key behind-the-scenes player but his relationship with Johnson ended in tears once more: the outgoing prime minister used one of his last actions in No 10 to sack him for disloyalty.
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