John McDonnell Visits Our School!

On Friday 17^th November we had a visit from John McDonnell, who is Hayes and Harlington's Member of Parliament (MP).  John opened his talk by telling the children the process of how a bill becomes law and the process of it going between the House of Commons and the House of Lords which he said is called ‘ping pong’ and can take up to 6 months to go through. He then talked to the Pupil Parliament about the importance of his role and work regarding us (his constituents). The members of the Pupil Parliament got to ask him some thought-provoking questions. Some of the questions were: "Do you like your job?", "How did you get your job?" "What are your responsibilities as an MP?" " How do MPs help the local community?" "Do you think there are any new laws that need to be made?"

Afterwards John said, “I thought the questions were very good and show what a bright bunch of pupils they are.  They have obviously done a lot of work on parliament and I hope that I was able to provide them with some real insight using my experience there with how you go about taking a bill through Parliament. Pupils were then invited to go on a visit to the parliament, which everyone is very excited about.