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2018 is a year of many important anniversaries for British democracy. February marked one hundred years since the first women won the vote. And it was exactly 90 years ago this week that the voting ages of men and women were equalised.
Understandably, given some of the more difficult political issues it is grappling with, the Government is delighted to have something to be jubilant about and it has announced the UK’s first “National Democracy Week” - billed as a “week-long celebration of democracy in society” - in the first week of July.
