Young voters quiz politicians

Young people visiting the youth website www.thesite.org last week got the chance to quiz three senior politicians.

Sarah Teather (Liberal Democrats), Charles Hendry (Conservative) and Barry Sheerman (Labour) answered questions from 150 users, with 3,500 more visiting the site.

All three politicians said they had been impressed by the quality of the questions posed/

Ms Teather added: “Young people are said to be apathetic about politics. I don’t think that they are: they’re just turned off by politicians and party politics…The experience has spurred me into considering how better to engage the younger generation – who after all aren’t much younger than me!”