Claire Fox, director at the Institute of Ideas, is misguided on a number of her points (YPN, 28 February-6 March, p12). A minister for youth is not there to deal with "an accident of age". By the same logic, are those living in rural areas with a minister for rural affairs victims of "an accident in geography"? The real peculiarity is that this minister would be working for children and young people, but not accountable to them through the ballot box.
Fox suggests that government shouldn't be listening to young people. Is she afraid that the insight of children and young people would outrank that dreamed up by her own Institute of Ideas? The lack of democratic rights for children and young people is all the more reason why government must listen to them.
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