Teachers will be asked to leave their politics at the classroom door in order to make sure pupils are not swayed on how to vote
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Teachers will be asked to leave their politics at the classroom door in order to make sure pupils are not swayed on how to vote
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Children will need to be given democracy lessons in schools from the age of 11 to help prepare them to vote at age 16, the head of the UK elections watchdog has said.
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