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This is what happens when you put a young person on a TV politics show. Maybe they should do it more often

There was a lot of talk of ‘young voters’ during the election coverage on BBC and elsewhere, but precious few instances of them actually being interviewed.

Watch Elliott, who is studying at Liverpool University, take on Tory MP James Cleverly over the government’s £1bn deal with the DUP.

“Northern Ireland has not become deprived overnight, it has been deprived the entire time you have been in government, so why is it suddenly now when Theresa May needs to cling onto power – that’s what she is doing, let’s not kid ourselves, let’s not joke or lie and say it’s in the national interest – why after seven years of power are you so interested in injecting £1bn of public money?

“It’s not Conservative money, it’s public money that could be distributed to mental health nurses, to schools, to [the] public sector but no because you want to cling to power, because you have got a woman who does not understand the electorate, who does not understand the message she has been given by the public, she has now bribed the Northern Irish assembly to keep her in power, justify that for me now please.”

The clip is from the BBC’s Victoria Live show, broadcast on Tuesday.

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