I don’t personally buy the argument that politics is stale. The issues are as vibrant and vital as ever – they affect all our lives after all. No doubt there has been an erosion of trust in politicians in recent years because of divisive foreign policy decisions. But the issues, the causes and the choices in politics are still there, waiting to be taken up again by future generations.

The terms of the debate will need to change to draw young people in. The whole stuffed-shirt atmosphere of Parliament may appeal to tourists and fuddy-duddies, but if any politician alive today is serious about changing the country for the better and enthusing young people in the process, then the way Parliament is conducted must change.

Out with the tribal slanging matches, which are too often excused as ‘political theatre’. In with reasoned, relevant debate which touches on real lives, explains as it goes along and allows young people to make a considered choice.

To engage the young in the first place, the political media has to expand to accommodate the young. The dull, middle-aged men in grey suits blathering away outside Number 10 need to move over sometimes for some younger journos, who know how to express politics through the language of young people. That doesn’t mean dumbing down, it means sharpening up, keeping it real.