Politicians patronise teenagers like me – then offer us nothing

I’m 16 and even if I could vote, I would choose not to (Picture: Supplied)

It was October 2022, and I was just 12 years old, watching TV with my family, when Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned.

That came just three months after another Prime Minister – Boris Johnson – had quit. 

‘Partygate’ and ‘Disastrous mini-budget’ were confusing terms for a pre-teen, but one thing was clear even to a child: Downing Street was in shambles.

Now I wonder how hundreds of thousands of other children ac...