Election 2015: the ten teenagers running for parliament
Michael Crick speaks to the young’uns hoping to take their place on the green benches come May.
If you’re 18 today, or reach your 18th birthday in the next week then now’s your chance to make political history. You could become the youngest person to stand for parliament since at last 1832.
Currently the record for the youngest candidate in a parliamentary election (or at least since the Great Reform Act) was Luke Wilkins who stood as an independent candidate in Erewash in Derbyshire in 2010 (and got a respectable 464 votes). He was just 18 years and 36 days old on the day of the 2010 election.