“I think it’s important, in the age of populism, that young people form politics for young people by young people.'
“I think you’ll agree my friends, that was worth waiting for,” said John Bercow, Speaker of the House of Commons, after Athian Akec, the then 15-year-old Youth MP for Camden, took to the floor in November of last year. Athian had just given a rousing, impassioned speech; a plea to our country’s politicians to tackle the root of London’s knife crime problem — poverty, inequality, austerity and a lack of opportunity — that quickly went viral.
Athian is a student at Hampstead School, a large, comprehensive in north London for 1,300 students from a broad spectrum of different backgrounds. “You meet people from every single part of society and a lot of the stereotypes about the different groups of people immediately become untrue. There are people who are really wealthy and there are people who are really disadvantaged, so it sort of represents the whole of society.
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