NO - Claire Fox, director, Institute of Ideas
I don't think young people need a government minister at any level. There is a danger of ghettoising youth issues as though the rest of government shouldn't be interested in young people.
The Government shouldn't be listening to young people - they're not a constituency or a community; it's an accident of age that they're young.
The big problem for young people is that adult society is overly in awe of, and in thrall to, young people - they're seen as an alien breed.
YES - Barbara Hearn, deputy chief executive and director of policy and research, NCB
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