I sit on the board of Claim Your Voice, a project that encourages young people to get involved in democracy. I want to help young people realise that decisions affect them, and it would be better if they also had their say.
If I were in charge of Parliament I'd make the debates a lot more interactive and less formally scripted.
During Local Democracy Week I chaired a debate in Parliament. We debated sex education, media perception of young people, gangs and knife crime. It was pretty much non-stop throughout the day, although at times I would intervene and move the debate on.
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