Petition · past parliament

Make political education complusory in all UK secondary schools.

Rejected 10 signatures

What the petition asks

One of my friends, an A-Level student, recently asked me what the difference is between Labour and Conservative; if this simple difference is not made clear, then how could they distinguish between a hard and a soft Brexit? We have sex and drugs education, but where is our political education?
The government controls our lives, and our generation has now been led into an unknown political shambles. Millions are spent on Brexit every single week, eradicating our education budget. Money has constantly been tossed in the bin, for negotiations that have subsequently led to nothing. Brexit controls our lives, and for us to have no say in what dominates our future is horrifying. Our generation is clueless, and we are the generation who will be left, to pick up the pieces.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

2 May 2019 Petition opened for signatures
22 May 2019 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 10
Status Rejected
Rejected 22 May 2019

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.