Who will take the last seat?

BBC One's flagship political programme has a place on its panel for a well-informed, articulate young person, passionate about what matters today.

The idea is being driven by a team of students who won this year's Schools Question Time Challenge and are helping make an edition of the programme on 5 July.

"Get yourself involved and become the spokesperson for your generation," says student panel producer Jack.

"We need people like you who care about their future, a normal member of the public who knows what life is really like growing up in the world today!"

It is the second time the panellist competition has been staged alongside the Schools Question Time programme.

Last year, a 20-year-old politics student, Matt Pollard from the University of Exeter became the first member of the public to sit on the Question Time panel.

Matt appeared alongside panellists including David Milliband and Lord Coe and confessed to being nervous but described the experience as "absolutely brilliant fun" as he tackled questions including Iraq and Tony Blair's resignation.

Who has what it takes?

Daniel, a student panel producer, adds: "It's important to have the voice of youth on the panel, to show the panellists and people around Britain that we have a voice and it needs to be heard."

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Jack and Daniel are two of the eight student winners of the Schools Question Time Challenge, an annual competition now in its fourth year.

The challenge, which is supported by the BBC, the Institute for Citizenship and BT, involves schools staging their own debates based upon the popular BBC One Question Time theme.

As well as being aged 16-22, applicants had to send a mobile phone video clip explaining why they want to be on Question Time.