Meet the 15-year-old who wants to become Prime Minister – after launching his own political party.
Kenan Noori, from Wroughton, is aiming to reconfigure British politics with his new party ‘Nexus’ – and says ”politics is my video game’. He’s even published a 57-page manifesto.
Since the General Election the teen has spent months founding his own political party – all from scratch.
Alone he has researched and written an exceptionally detailed manifesto – which spans across 57 pages highlighting solutions for the country’s problems.
The main areas of focus of a Nexus government would be to re-establish and reform welfare, re-enter the EU and reform the NHS.
Nexus has even attracted the attention of Labour MPs who have got in touch with Kenan. His aim is to one day become an MP and Prime Minister and says he might be young but ‘politics is his video game’.
He said: “As I started I thought that it would only really emerge up to 20-pages but then as I started remembering of the multiple facets and how politics actually impacts our lives there has to be great level of detail in there to combat misinformation – you have seen parties such as Reform and they have said immigration has to stop.
“We saw the lowest ever turnout in the general election around 64 per cent of the electorate which I think it said that the electorate was very shocked and displeased with the political parties on offer and I think that the political parties what they offer is representing only a few groups in society.
“Mainstream politics is losing ground in the UK at the moment and I think that there has to be a resurgence of pragmatic thinking to drive policy making that it is only based on ideology but based on useful ideas and how to actually drive ideas that are useful for the country not just to drive party motives.
“Nexus is founded on an equilibrium – there isn’t a strict balance. Nexus uses data of how the country is functioning and situated to identify what the country needs at certain times. It normally navigates between centre left and centre right policies.”
Kenan, attends Ridgeway school in Wroughton, and lives with his parents and twin older brothers at the family home In Overtown.
He hopes to go on to study medicine and become a doctor after taking his GCSEs later this year has created a professional website for his party and loaded up a 57-page manifesto.
His interest for politics started from a young age – particularly after Brexit. But is aim is to one day become an MP and a Prime Minister.
“I think that is the most realistic way you can enact change when you are in a position of power,” he said.
“Politics is a way of thinking and of knowing what society is about. It enters all areas of society – wealth, home ownership.
“As the younger generation we have to look at our choices for the future and know what impacts them and one of those areas is politics – learning about politics will really help understand that.”
He explained how he has chosen politics as is his “video game” – adding that it is a “force” that can bring change.
“Politics is the best video game and that is the one I chosen to play. If you are going to play a game make it worthwhile and useful – and politics is very much useful of your time,” he added.
Kenan’s plan is that Nexus will straddle that left-right divide, taking the best from centre-left politics and the best from the centre-right – and stave off the threat from the extremes at either end of the spectrum.
He said: “It is in the vast majority of public opinion to rejoin the EU. We have seen approximately 70 per cent of the electorate wanting it back now.
“Due to the multiple pros of it being in a trade block means free trade which means that smaller businesses can grown. Smaller businesses as we know account for a large proportion of the private sector investment.
“Boris Johnson still defines Brexit as being a success – we have seen because there is data to back it up that it wasn’t a success it was a failure and I think there has to be people who were in the process of Brexit admitting that it was a mistake and there has to be change.”
Asking what he thinks about Sir Keir Starmer, Kenan said his “reluctance” to change the establishment will “damage” his party in the long run.
He said: “There has to be more change. There has absolutely no merits to Labour’s policies so far.”
And he added that every political figure can “teach a lesson” on how to view politics.
Kenan added: “You have seen successful government teaching you how to manage a country and you have seen unsuccessful failures of governments such as the Conservative’s 14 year series of governments on what not to do.
“Whether political figures are bad and good I think there is always a lesson to be taught and in terms of inspiration it is a multifaceted approach.
”We have seen success from Labour and from Conservative and the idea of One-nation conservatism in the 1960s.”
If he could bring Nexus to power tomorrow, his main points of policy action would span over public sector investment, private sector investment and to redefine how the government is managed through increase social democracy and create more transparency between the public and the political class.
He added: “We have seen migration being attacked. I think in terms of migration we need to see what benefits it brings – in history looking at data you see that most builders come from Eastern Europe and from Ireland and British people are less willing to take those low paying manual labour jobs. If we don’t embrace immigration we will not tackle that problem.
“We have seen in the House of Lords they really do not have societal backing and public backing. In terms of polling there is record levels of discontent with the House of Lords and we have said we have to change the upper house of politics. We have outlined a plan where you have elected Lords.”
And a Nexus government would spend £10bn on setting up 1,000 polyclinics to treat outpatients, relieving pressure on hospitals, and students graduating in fields such as nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy and pharmacy will have 20 per cent of their student loan paid by the government.
Kenan is hopeful that the party will have numbers of supporters – as his website got over 1,700 views in the span of four days after it was created.
Kenan concluded: “That really echoes the view that there is a rejection of politics as it is and people will flock to something like this. I think it is only a matter of time before the support reaches that tipping point where it can actually materialised into an actual party.
“There was a Labour MP who expressed support for Nexus and that obviously shows that the political establishment needs some enlightenment because there are people in the political establishment that support new ideas of politics – whether or not it aligns with them.”
The full Nexus manifesto is available to download from the website https://www.nexus-party.com/
