Tag: Duncan McEwan

The independence referendum gave plenty of reasons to be optimistic about Scotland’s democratic future

The independence referendum gave plenty of reasons to be optimistic about Scotland’s democratic future

The Scottish independence referendum was the first wide-scale election in the UK to allow 16 and 17 year olds the vote, with turnout consistent with other groups. One of those first-time voters in the youngest age bracket, Duncan McEwan, thinks that the referendum gives reasons to be optimistic about Scotland’s democratic future, with the younger, largely pro-independence generation […]