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HeartLine Member at Prime Minister's Question Time!

HeartLine member, Elliott Westhoff, was recently invited to 10 Downing Street to give the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, a grilling! Elliott and 14 others asked Mr Brown questions about issues concerning young people.

Elliott explained to HeartLine what his day was like, "It was such a surreal day. I had an early start getting up at 5am and arriving at Downing Street just after 6am. We did some filming outside Number 10 and then we went in for the most posh breakfast I've had. We had a quick tour around Number 10 - seeing the very grand state rooms and I got to sit where President Obama had sat and I also stood at the podium the Prime Minister would be using several hours later to address the public on the news! We had a quick chat with T4's Rick Edwards and then quite suddenly the Prime Minister was behind me shaking my hand and asking me my name and what I did. The meeting lasted just over an hour and we had the chance to ask 15 questions which we and the Bebo discrimination in the different pay brackets of the National Minimum Wage.

It was such a fun day and I will remember it forever. I went to Number 10 with preconceptions of what Gordon Brown would be like but when we were there he did not stop smiling.

Lorna Russell, HeartLine Association

Tel: 01276 707639, Email: lorna.russell@heartline.org.uk

7 August 2009