WILLIAM Hague watch out - Michelle Donolan is after your job.

For Michelle, a pupil at the County High School Leftwich, brought the house down at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, last week.

The 15-year-old addressed more than 1,000 delegates about the importance of unity in the United Kingdom.

She was the youngest speaker - but that didn't seem to worry the Young Conservative.

Michelle has been interested in politics since she was six-years-old as she watched Margaret Thatcher on television with awe.

"She's my real hero. She's a wonderfully strong person, the longest serving Prime Minister," said Michelle.

Michelle joined the young Conservatives when she was 13 and has already met John Major and William Hague.

And what's her ambition?

"I'd like to be an MP and then go right to the top," she said.

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