I was speaking the week before last at the Dukeries College in Nottinghamshire and one pupil asked about compulsory voting. I asked the opinion of the audience. There was a majority, but only a small one, against making voting compulsory. When I asked the same question last week to pupils at Bradfield College, Near Reading, there…
Compulsory voting is advocated by some politicians as a means of addressing the problem of political disengagement. Young people tend to have a low turnout rate but this has worsened in recent decades. Many people retain an interest in politics but express that interest through pressure group activity rather than through traditional means of joining…
