A review of young people and politics will be chaired by Lady Royall, the shadow leader of the Lords. Advisers include Dean Carlin of London Students, Lord Glasman, the academic who coined the term "blue Labour", Lady Morgan, the Labour peer, sixth form student Chelsea Walsh and young councillor Tulip Siddiq.
Tom Clark writes:
This could prove the usual worthy talking shop about the importance of engaging the youth, and pushing for votes at 16. But Labour ought to sense political opportunity in the fact that the welfare cuts are hammering the young – on housing benefit and childcare for example –
while fuel payments for the old are protected. Young people, however, do not use their votes – in 2010 the oldest were roughly twice as likely to vote as the under 25s. How can Labour persuade them to change?
