Over the last few years, polling has suggested that young adults have grown disillusioned with democracy, and that a surprising proportion would be open to the idea of a strong leader who didn’t have to bother with parliament, or even to military rule.

Public First, alongside Phil Tinline of BBC Radio 4, convened a war game in the East Midlands. The war game invited nine young adults to form a fictional Cabinet. We tested out how the group responded to an escalating series of scenarios, drawing on real events, which put democracy under ever greater pressure. For example, the Group considered under what circumstances, if any, would they deploy the military, or declare a state of emergency?

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