"Running mock elections in Coventry and Warwickshire schools in following a pattern set in Wheatley Street School, Coventry at the time of the 1923 election. 

Dickie Morrell (the teacher) arranged the mock election in our class. I was the Labour candidate and I won the contest. 

Wheatley Street School was in the Coventry South parliamentary division in the 1964 election when I won the seat for Labour from the Tories. 

The scholars who voted for me in the classroom in 1923  would have been amazed if they had know that were voting for a lad who would become the MP for Wheatley Street. 

Any lad or girl who  thinks of standing in mock elections in Coventry or Warwickshire should appreciate that history shows they could be on their way to  Westminster."

Bill Wilson, former MP for Coventry, letter to the Coventry Evening Telegraph, 24 February 2001.