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Foreword by Catherine Rawsthorne UKYP North West Representative
 
Welcome to the UK Youth Parliament Manifesto. This document tackles a wide range of topics affecting young people, from child poverty to public transport costs, from class sizes to mental health provision, once again proving that today’s generation of young people are far from apathetic about the world they live in. 

It was written entirely by young people locally elected to represent the views of their peers and was re-drafted by Members of Youth Parliament at our Annual Sitting at the University of Canterbury in Kent. It brings together the views of a diverse range of young people from across the UK and takes the voices of a generation directly to decision makers, which is particularly important with a General Election coming up. We hope that some of these manifesto ideas are considered and taken up by the main parties.

As an organisation, it’s been a massive year for UKYP, topped off with the chance to debate in the House of Commons in October – the first time ever that ‘strangers’ have been allowed to sit on the green benches. This event shows how far we’ve come in just ten years and that young people have just as much to say as adult politicians, and we continue to campaign for their voices to be listened to in a modern democracy.

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