INTERVIEW with SUFFOLK
COUNTY COUNCILLOR
NATHAN WILSON BY RACHEL MITCHELL
Nathan Wilson has recently been elected as a Suffolk County Councillor in Ipswich. At just 18 years old, Nathan is one of (if not the) youngest County Councillors in the country. Our editor Rachel, met with Nathan to find out how the opportunity came about and what plans have been made for the year ahead. Hey! Please introduce yourself, who you are, where you studied at school and where you’re studying now I am Nathan Wilson. I studied at ‘The Willows’ which was a small primary school within Chantry (The area which I now represent) for most of my primary school years. I went to Stoke High School and then Suffolk One. I studied and have always had a passion for both History, Politics and the humanities section of education as a whole.
I was thinking about going to Canterbury or Essex for University before lockdown happened. Everyone said lockdown would be over by October but even back in March I thought I would switch to Suffolk for a year and see how it goes. However, I don’t think I’m going to move as I really enjoy this University – my history course is number one for student satisfaction and it really shows.
Have you always had an interest in politics? It really started in 2015. Beforehand, like most, if you had had asked me the difference between Cameron and Clegg, I could not have picked them out of a line-up even if they had name tags! Though during that election was when the first beginnings of an interest in politics came to me, I was watching debates and was really fascinated by it, an anarchic battle of wits and words. When the Brexit referendum came around, it was the biggest campaign this country has ever seen. The whole campaigning, the whole drive and passion fascinated me, not to mention showing the power of the everyday person to make such grand changes
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