Despite not being able to vote in this year's general election, young people have told Sky's Bench Across Britain series that they're following the latest news - and memes - on TikTok.
Rishi Sunak dressed as a purple wizard and Sir Keir Starmer's feeble punches in a gym. These are the images teenagers are sharing in school on TikTok - all being pushed out by party campaign teams to target the young. For our Bench Across Britain series, we took our people's parliamentary bench to Cardinal Newman Catholic School in the Bedfordshire town of Luton, where we discovered young people are following this election closely online.
' But the teenagers are also keenly aware that many of the policies in this election impact them. Student Hilary Matiwa, 17, says: 'Personally, I think we should have a vote because there are some things that they are talking about that are addressed to our generation, like the national service, like compulsory maths and English, and not only that but university tuition fees. 'As we're getting older, like, they're getting higher and higher.
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