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March 19th The Big Student Debate
McEwan Hall, Edinburgh University.
Section 3 - Voting Age and Student Apathy.
A significant number of school students were in the audience and there was a lively exchange about lowering the voting age to 16 and about why some young people are apathetic about politics.
- Labour - Sarah Boyack MSP (Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development)
- SNP - Fiona Hyslop MSP (Education and Lifelong Learning)
- Conservative - Murdo Fraser MSP (Deputy Leader and Enterprise)
- Green - Mark Ballard MSP (Transport)
- SSP - Colin Fox MSP (Leader)
- Solidarity - Tommy Sheridan MSP (Leader)
- LibDems - Margaret Smith MSP (Chief Whip)
- Independent - Margo MacDonald MSP (Independent)
Videos produced by media students from Napier University
John Parnell, Morven Innes, Gerry Corbett, Clara Martin, Lynne Whitelaw
and Andrew Scott
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