Oliver De Botton, pastoral manager at Albany School in Enfield, who attended with a group of 16-year-old pupils, summed up the feelings of many. "We found the politicians entirely disappointing.
If politics is about communicating ideas, I don't think they did a very good job." When asked how politicians planned to involve young people in decisions affecting them, Theresa May, the shadow families secretary, said: "A lot is down to politicians to go and listen to young people." Baroness Sharp, education spokeswoman for the Liberal Democrats, said extended schools were extremely important. And children's minister Margaret Hodge said local authorities' youth budgets had doubled under Labour.
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