Teenagers need the power to step off the trouble train

No one who has power, status and security wants to give it up. And it’s especially had for anyone who makes policy or implements it to admit that they should share their power.

The people who run the country generally only talk to, and are influenced by, others like themselves: graduates with good grammar and a history of working hard and doing well. So it felt like a historic day last month when I went into No 10 Downing Street with a bunch of teenagers who don’t fit that mould.

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