It is not often that Parliament is silenced by a 15-year-old who is struggling not to cry as they try to convey the importance of being able to speak out. However, this is what happened back in late April.
Admittedly this was a Westminster committee room and not the great debating chamber, but the people who mattered were there and they saw how Olivia, a self-described working class teenager from Manchester, had been changed by attending an after-school group that had taught her how to speak publicly.
She wasn’t the only young person in the room who moved us by the way they were able to shatter stereotypes, either social, ability or age.
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