Peer pressure: Lord Weatherill talks politics during his visit to Coulsdon College
Coulsdon College students were encouraged to get involved with politics by a former House of Commons speaker.
Lord Weatherill, who was appointed speaker of the house in 1983 and served as MP for Croydon North, visited the college in Placehouse Lane as part of a BBC Radio 4 documentary called The Age Gap, about young people and politics.
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