This is Patrick Robinson, 16. He believes Sir John Major is the man to get young people engaged in politics.
Robinson seized the chance to raise the issue when Major visited his hometown of Solihull, in the West Midlands, to make a speech.
In his first intervention of the general election campaign, Major warned about the dangers of a Labour-SNP alliance.
But Robinson, who is studying for his GCSEs at nearby Langley School, pointed out that lots of young people couldn't care less about politics. He told Major that in his school, politics was not very cool or "in with the kids".
Major said: "I don't think it's just about the young, I think there is disengagement with politics and we have seen it most vividly in the diminishing turnout of national and local elections of recent years.
"And I think probably the fact that this election is so close, we may see a reversal in that disengagement and more people voting, I hope so.
"The fact that you're engaged with politics – and I hope many other young people are too – is a good start. Let's build on it. I hope one day when you stand here nobody will have to ask you that question."
Robinson, who said he had permission to bunk school for the event, told BuzzFeed News he was impressed by Major.
"I thought he was really, really good," he said. "I think he's really important in getting young people engaged in politics because it's such an important thing. You don't have to be a religious follower of it but I believe that people should have an interest in it."
Could Major be the man to inspire young people? "Yes definitely, considering he's a former leader, and I feel he is quite a good symbol to youngsters as well."
Robinson is helping to campaign for local Tory candidate Julian Knight, who is hoping to overturn Lib Dem Lorely Burt's tiny 175 majority.
"I think I can only name one friend that has an interest in politics," Robinson said. "I am a Conservative supporter but I don't look at things in black and white; I do look at what the Labour party has to say, and the Liberal Democrats.
"My mother and father are both Conservatives but it's through reading widely – newspapers and Private Eye – without those I couldn't have developed my own opinion, and my own opinion happens to be the same as my mum and dad's."