The minister only had a couple of hours in the morning to listen to the young people's opinions, before he had to dash back down to London.
He had to meet with a Tibetan nun who had been imprisoned in China. All part of his day job as a junior minister at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
But the 14 to 19-year-olds made the most of it and the minister, the Harlow MP Bill Rammell, fielded a steady stream of questions from the floor in the Cambridge event on 26 June, part of the Str8 Up! Young People Talk, Ministers Listen tour. This England-wide event, organised by the Children and Young People's Unit (CYPU), has gone to venues from Leeds to Bristol to Guildford, and it is coming to an end in Newcastle on Friday, 4 July. It is touted as an opportunity for young people to influence future Government policy.
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