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Democracy in action

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Freddie Machin finds out about how one Liverpool-based theatre company is giving young people the tools to become active citizens in UK democracy

Soon after Mhairi Black was selected as the youngest member of UK parliament in 200 years, she was interviewed by Channel 4 news as she headed towards her new place of work and asked her thoughts on the palace of Westminster. The interviewer said ‘David Cameron said that Parliament felt like a school to him. Do you think this will feel like a school to you?’ Mhairi smiled. ‘My school was a bit different to David Cameron's, I think.’

Few people manage to achieve what Mhairi did at such a young age. Although many distinguished politicians began their careers as the ‘baby of the house’, that does not disguise the fact that more generally, young people are not engaged in politics. The process is convoluted, its structures archaic, and its reputation as bureaucratic as ever.

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