Four 11- to-13-year-olds will quiz Labour Home Secretary Alan Johnson, Conservative leader David Cameron and the Lib Dems' cheeky backbencher Lembit Opik on "how they plan to make Britain a better place for children" in the half-hour Election: Your Vote programme, at 4.35pm on BBC One. The debate, chaired by Andrew Neil, was filmed in front of a live audience of 140 children. The budding Jeremy Paxmans include 13-year-old Louis from London who was a victim of an attempted mugging and wants to ask about knife crime and street safety, and 13-year-old Megan from Wootton Bassett whose father has been fighting in Afghanistan and is keen to talk about the conflict. You can be sure that out of all the hustings, interviews, and canvassing on the horizon this was one opportunity that really set these seasoned campaigners quaking in their boots.
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