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Tony McNulty with John Watts & Oreoluwa Akinkunmi

Twelve Poetry and Rhetoric pupils visited the Palace of Westminster for an insight into the workings of Parliament and Government as part of their A Level Politics studies. Under the leadership of Mr David Ridout, the pupils were accompanied by Mr Simon Andrews and Mrs Rosemary Shipley.  Our Westminster guides for the day were Daniel O’Byrne (OS) and Andrew Brinkley (OS) who are both researchers with Nigel Evans, MP for the Ribble Valley, and Sam Burke (OS), researcher for Lord David Alton.

With Edward Leigh MP, Chair of the Public Accounts Comittee

Three of the students were very fortunate in being able to attend Prime Minister’s Question Time after which Edward Leigh MP very kindly took us all to lunch on the impressive Members’ Terrace overlooking the Thames.

With Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 Policital Correspondent

The group attended a debate on the Iraq war in the House of Commons and Question Time in the House of Lords before a discussion on the workings of Parliament with Lord Alton and Baroness Morris.  It was a great pleasure for everyone to meet with Baroness Boothroyd, Jonathan Aitken and other Lords and Members as they wandered in the “corridors of power”.

This was another in the series of successful visits organised by Mr Ridout, enabling the A level Politics course to be relevant and up to date.