Give the young more votes than older people

Like Beth Riding (Austria lowered the voting age for young people like me, and transformed politics. The UK should do the same, 29 May), I would like to see the voting age reduced to 16. I’d go further, though: why not assign different numbers of votes to people according to their age? So 16- to 30-year-olds would get five votes each, 30- to 40-year-olds four votes, and 40- to 50-year-olds three, and over-50s a single vote. Imagine what that would do to the political parties’ priorities. By the way, I’m 60.
Mark Walford
London

• Emma Brockes is right to cherish the lunch break, but working through it is not the only problem (They say the lunch break is dying – but don’t give up your hour of freedom, 30 May). We still refer to a lunch “hour”, but this has long ceased to be a reality for most people – the average UK lunch break is just 33 minutes long, according to a 2023 survey by Compass Group and Mintel.
Paul McGilchrist
Cromer, Norfolk

• You report (29 May) that Waitrose is the only major supermarket with more Conservative voters than Labour supporters as customers. Let’s hear it for Guardian-reading pensioners who shop in Waitrose and have never voted Tory in their lives – and aren’t starting now.
Pam Lunn
Kenilworth, Warwickshire

• If the Tories are looking for “low-value” degrees to shut down (Report, 28 May), PPE at Oxford seems to have just given us a long list of useless politicians.
Norman Miller
Brighton

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