The youngest voter in the general election, 14-year-old Alfie McKenzie from Preesall, Lancashire, was unremorseful yesterday, despite a warning from his local police and council that his behaviour could constitute a criminal offence. "It was just too mulch of a temptation to resist," he said. I’m a socialist. I’d been reading up on it a lot before the election, and I’d got very I interested in tactical voting. Nobody asked me for ID or anything."

After voting "dressed in a trenchhcoat, glasses and posh shoes," Alfie, went to school, where he told a teacher what he had done in confidence. But the teacher went straight to the head and Alfie was given a stern talking-to by the police. Half an hour later he was told the Sun was on the phone and wanted to speak to him.

"I’d never speak to the Sun," he said firmly, "I’m a Guardian reader."

His mother, a PA to a doctor, is a Labour supporter, and his father is a remarkable animal, a socialist estate agent. Despite Alfie’s best efforts, Ben Wallace held the seat for the Tories.