Reform UK plots new wave of student societies

Nigel Farage plots setting up student societies after turquoise youthquake as Keir Starmer 'considers' axing votes at 16 to stop Reform winning even more votes

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin has predicted that Labour will abandon its manifesto pledge to lower the voting age to 16, claiming Nigel Farage's popularity among teenagers is behind the potential U-turn.Pochin said Farage has "extraordinary" support amongst young people, with three Reform societies already being set up at Durham, East Anglia and York Universities.Pochin, who won the Runcorn & Helsby by-election at the start of May, said: "The youth,…

Reform UK plots new wave of student societies

They say that the children are our future. So what better way for a party to demonstrate its potential than by winning support among the nation’s yoof? Britain’s universities are often depicted as hotbeds of leftism, incubators for the kind of avocado-eating, chai latte-drinking wokerati that sends Jonathan Gullis into a tizzy. But now Mr S