School in High Wycombe brought national politics to life with its own Question Time event

The panel at the Question Time event held at John Hampden Grammar School. (Image supplied by Buckingham Constituency Labour Party)

A school in High Wycombe brought national politics to life with its own Question Time event.

Organised by the politics students and teachers from the John Hampden School in Wycombe, the event gave students the chance to ask the panel questions ranging from Net Zero to the power of social media. Students also keepe the panel on their toes with numerous questions around the issue of the terrible situation in Ukraine.

The panel included Conservative peer, Earl Attlee, the grandson of Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Buckingham’s Mark Brown, the Labour Party’s future candidate, as well as Peter Ford, the former British Ambassador to Syria and Toni Brodelle from the Lib Dems. Keeping them inline was Baroness D’Souza the former speaker of the House of Lords.

Mark Brown said: ‘Engaging young people with politics is so important, the decisions we make locally and nationally affect all of our lives.

Young people are the future, we need them to be involved in decisions made now, just on climate change and net-zero young people are the ones who will live with the effects of decisions we make now.‘

*Source of article :Press release from Buckingham Constituency Labour Party.