BRYONY GORDON: Keir Starmer's latest lunacy has tipped me over the edge. I now see he's just a clown in donated designer clothes
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Everyone has their limit with Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party, and I think I just reached mine. For some it was the reversal of the winter fuel allowance, for others it was the betrayal of the Waspis, and for many more it was the so-called tractor tax that blew a hole in their belief that this Government was anything other than a bunch of self-serving cronies out to line their own pockets.
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But the thing that tipped me over the edge, and persuaded me that Sir Keir is no more than a clown in donated designer clothing, was when a minister announced last week that the party really did intend to give children the right to vote. 'We have a manifesto commitment to look more broadly at our elections regime in this country,' said Lucy Powell, the Commons leader, in an interview. 'From things like votes at 16, which we're committed to, but also to make sure our electoral system has got that integrity and is robust from many of the new issues [we] face undermining our democracy and our elections.'.
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Integrity! Commitment! Undermining our democracy! The words rolled off her tongue with no apparent sense of irony. Of all the pre-election promises to decide to actually stand by, giving 16-year-olds the vote seems by far the silliest. Though perhaps it shouldn't be all that surprising, given that GCSE students who can vote for no more than the winner of I'm A Celebrity are just about the only group of people in the country the Government hasn't managed to isolate during the past few months.
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In the run-up to the election, Sir Keir explained why he was in favour of lowering the voting age: 'I want to see both 16 and 17-year-olds [vote]. If you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your Armed Forces, then you ought to be able to vote.' To which I say: What a load of rot.
