These proclamations promoted me to recall an amusing tale from the precursor of the UKYP more than a decade ago.
Conservative MP Andrew Roe, in association with some Liberal Democrat parliamentarians, had the idea of a large gathering of young people under the title of Heirs to the Millennium. The venue was to be Coventry Cathedral.
An impressive speaker list was proposed, ranging from then health minister Stephen Dorrell and Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes to soon-to-be drugs czar Keith Hellawell and the parents of Leah Betts, who had died from taking ecstasy. In advance of the gathering I received the agenda for the event, which told me I had a 20-minute slot around lunchtime to speak on the social condition of young people in the UK.
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