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-------------------------------------------------------- Which political issues are you most passionate about? I’m passionate about building a more stronger, less divided, British society. I believe the key to a strong society is strong families. Families provide so much love, security and stability for all of us, and most importantly young people. As a country, we need to be doing more to strengthen families so young people can get a good, stable start to life. I’m also passionate about how our country is run. We have too many people trying to ruin what is good about our political system. We shouldn’t be ending years of tradition just for the sake of ‘reform’ and nor should we be transferring powers from our own parliament to an ever more powerful European Union when there‘s nothing wrong with the way things are at the moment. What do you feel is the biggest issue for young people in your constituency? Amongst other things, young people in Newcastle tell us as MYPs that they don’t have enough to do at weekends, in the evenings and in school holidays. Giving young people things to do is one step in solving many other problems we have including childhood obesity and antisocial behaviour as with more things to do, young people aren’t kicking around on street corners or sitting playing on their computers, they can be out and about doing things. What do you hope to achieve during your term of office? I hope to work with officials in the council and other young people to set up a youth council for our city; we desperately need one if young people aren’t going to be ignored. This will lead to services for young people being designed around young people’s needs as politicians and officials will be able hear what young people actually want and not what adults think they want. What is your future career ambition? When I’ve left school, I’d like to read law at university and practice as a barrister before entering national politics where I’d hope to become an MP and maybe even Prime Minister one day. Which public figure do you most admire and why? The public figure I most admire is Margaret Thatcher. I think she turned the Britain around from being the ‘sick man of Europe’ to being the economic power it is today. Unlike many other politicians who don’t really seem to know what they want to do, Mrs Thatcher had a vision of how she wanted to change Britain, and whilst at times the way she went about enacting that vision caused hardship to people, in the end she presided over a fundamental shift in British political life as a whole and we wouldn’t enjoy the success we do today if she hadn’t made the hard choice when she was in charge. If there was one message you could send to the government, what would it be? Remember who gave you your mandate to govern this country and stop showing the British people total and utter disrespect in the way you are at the moment. The British people deserve better than a government which dithers over decisions, goes back on pledges it made in its election manifesto and penalises hard working families who earn a decent wage but get a good portion of it taken off them by the taxman. Britain deserves better than that and the government ought to remember just who put them where they are. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- East Midlands | East of England | London | North East | North West | Scotland | South East | South West | Wales | West Midlands | Yorkshire & Humberside
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