This Panel event took place at 6:00pm in the Keynes Library on Tuesday 27th February 2024.
In 2022, it was reported in the Guardian that just 7% of MPs were from a working-class background, despite 34% of all UK working-age adults being working class.
This panel brings together representatives from social enterprises and politicians to raise attention to the need for working class voices in politics and to hear from their own experiences getting involved in politics or in increasing political engagement.
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Panellists:
Councillor Mete Coban
Mete Coban MBE is Chief Executive of My Life My Say, a youth-led, non-partisan movement working to increase voting and political engagement in young people in the UK and across Europe. He is best known for increasing turn-out in young people in recent general elections and is the youngest ever elected Councillor for the London borough of Hackney.
Victoria Ayodeji
Victoria Ayodeji is a graduate of Cambridge University and an alumna of the Patchwork Foundation Politics Masterclass Programme, which works the political inclusion of youth from disadvantaged background. She is the first Chair of the Youth Advisory Board for Career Ready (a national social mobility charity).
Councillor Chloé Hawryluk
Chloé Hawryluk is a councillor for Wythall Parish Council and a final year BA politics student at the University of Liverpool. She is particularly passionate about the inclusion of young people in politics and the community and fighting against sexual harassment, founding Our Voice Matters a cross-party campaign to address sexual harassment in political parties.
Rainbow Murray
Rainbow Murray is a professor of politics at Queen Mary University of London and was formerly the first Senior Diversity Lead at the university. She was previously co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research Political Data Yearbook. Her research focuses on diversity and representation within political institutions.
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