EAST Lancs Peer Tony Greaves has backed lowering the voting age to 16.
He told the House of Lords: "People at 16 are old enough, mature enough and sensible enough to have the franchise."
The Pendle Peer said that in the 1960s he campaigned for votes at 18. He said: "That was thought to be a quite dramatic and appalling thing to do by many people at the time.
"Only a few years afterwards the government of Harold Wilson adopted and introduced it and we did not have a revolution.
"In many ways, it reinvigorated student and youth politics in this country which was highly beneficial.
"I am firmly in favour of voting at the age of 16."
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