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Vincent McAviney: UK Correspondent on the country lowering the voting age to 16 · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: And after the UK we go. Vincent Mecavinni, good morning
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  Speaker 1: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So there's FGEN data bridge. What's the latest on this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this has been rumbling on for a few days now.
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  Speaker 2: It's been revealed after a superinjunction a very rare legal
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  Speaker 2: procedure was lifted that a data breach detailing some Afghan
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  Speaker 2: citizens who had aided British troops and other forces during
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  Speaker 2: the many years that they were there doing things like
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  Speaker 2: translation and working with them. Well, their personal details and
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  Speaker 2: details of their family were leaked out, putting them at risk,
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  Speaker 2: and so there has been this secret scheme which has
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  Speaker 2: resettled many of them here in the UK. But this
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  Speaker 2: afternoon it's been discovered that the names of around one
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  Speaker 2: hundred British nationals, including spies working for intelligence agencies like
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  Speaker 2: MI six and members of the Special Forces the SAS
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  Speaker 2: and SBS, their details were also on this spreadsheet, compromising them.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's unclear whether or not this leak stayed in
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  Speaker 2: Afghanistan or if other powers such as China or Russia
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  Speaker 2: were able to get their hands on it, and that
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  Speaker 2: would have identified some people whose identities should have really
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  Speaker 2: remained protected.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you've actually done it. Sixteen year olds will vote
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  Speaker 1: at the nixt general election in twenty twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, the first general election where we'll see
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  Speaker 2: sixteen and seventeen year olds getting to vote. It was
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  Speaker 2: something that Labor had promised in their manifesto, but it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't clear when they were actually going to introduce this.
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  Speaker 2: There's a bit of thinking in the party that younger
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  Speaker 2: people tend to be more left leaning and so that
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  Speaker 2: they could support them. But more generally, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people welcoming this proposal because it does seem like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of people, particularly older voters, are the ones only
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  Speaker 2: being catered to buy the parties when it comes to elections.
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  Speaker 2: Things here in the UK, with what we call the
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  Speaker 2: triple lock, which is a freeze on sort of changing
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  Speaker 2: pension rules mean that they're pretty well protected in terms
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  Speaker 2: of how they provide out the sort of recent times
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  Speaker 2: in the ECONO, but services for young people being cut,
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  Speaker 2: more student fees it being increased, all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: People are thinking this might try to rebalance somewhat the
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  Speaker 2: generational divide that we're seeing here in the UK.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, going to come up. There's going to be some
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  Speaker 1: left leading parties are going to come up with some
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  Speaker 1: pretty wacky policies. I mean, you know, free Minecraft and
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  Speaker 1: upgrades for every kid because they think they might actually
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  Speaker 1: get them some votes. So good luck. Do you have
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  Speaker 1: a great weekend, Vincent mcavinia.
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