The election caused us to say goodbye - for the time being at least - to several youth sector notables, including schools minister Stephen Twigg, youth work champion Oona King, shadow education minister Tim Collins and Liberal Democrat youth spokesman Matthew Green (see p5).
Claire Ward, chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Youth Affairs, had to fight tooth and nail to retain her seat in Watford, as did Liberal Democrat and previously the youngest MP in the House of Commons, Sarah Teather, in Brent East.
In Wealden, shadow youth minister Charles Hendry has one of the safest Tory seats in the country and was never in any danger. But education minister Ruth Kelly narrowly retained her Bolton West seat, as did youth minister Margaret Hodge in Barking - although she will have been dismayed to see the BNP registering almost 5,000 votes in her constituency.
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