According to this story, Gordon Brown is going to be launching an online version of Prime Minister’s Question Time In June. It’s an attempt to ‘reconnect with younger voters’ according to the BBC (isn’t everything online described as that now?) and will be a regular event.

It’s going to be run through Youtube, so absolute top marks for going where the people actually are and not reinventing the wheel, and will let people upload video questions in order, i imagine, to get a video based response.

So, potentially a good thing, but i really hope it’s been planned out carefully, and isn’t just another ‘young people use technology, if we use it too, they’ll like / engage with us more’ approach. The statement that videos can’t contain ‘political content’ too seems odd.

Will be keeping an interested eye on this one, if you want to see what they’ve got on the Number 10 Youtube channel already (and the pretty neat reskin they’ve given Youtube), check it out here.