Peers back lowering EU referendum voting age to 16

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - The British parliament's unelected upper house backed on Wednesday lowering the voting age to 16 in a planned referendum on Britain's continued membership of the European Union, a move that could delay the timing of the crucial vote. Britons can usually vote from the age of 18, but 16- and 17-year-olds were allowed to vote in last year's Scottish independence referendum, prompting calls for a similar lowering of the threshold for the EU referendum that Prime