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Posted on December 10th 2024
Learn with the Lords session
On Tuesday 10th December, Year 10 Citizenship and Year 12 and 13 Politics students at HABS had the opportunity to question Lord Knight, a current member of the House of Lords and previous MP and government minister about his political career.
The questions ranged from debates about House of Lords reform to his role in the Defence Select Committee at the time of the 2003 invasion of Iraq as well as current issues like online safety, the conflict in Israel and Palestine and the role of AI.
Students were particularly interested in his role as schools minister in the Labour government and how he would improve curriculums and schools. Lord Knight was incredibly impressed with the intelligent and insightful questions students asked - definitely an argument in favour of lowering the voting age!