Debate Topics

We have provided an extensive list of debate topics to get you started. Motions always start with ‘This house…’ which really just means ‘We, the team who are speaking…’ Motions are tagged to give an idea of what levels they are best for. Look out for our ‘Debate Hub favourite’ tag!

This House believes that developing countries should prioritise protectionism over free trade

This House Believes that major tourist destinations should significantly limit the number of tourists that can visit.

This House believes that Prominent business women should push towards reforming the current corporate culture (e.g. equal pay audits, gender quotas, and flexible work policies) rather than giving women advice on how to succeed within the current corporate culture (e.g. negotiating salaries, asking for promotions, and building confidence)

This House prefers a world with no advertising to the Status Quo

This House would ban private landlords

This House would prevent MPs from having an alternative source of income

This House would stop funding space exploration

This House would ban gambling

This House would ban all advertising

This House would abolish the minimum wage

This House would scrap all government arts funding

This House would require people to work in exchange for welfare payments

This House would introduce a 100% inheritance tax

This House would force companies to put more women in senior positions

This House would pay stay at home parents a salary

This House would abolish all forms of affirmative action

This house would not give development aid to non-democratic governments

This house would impose lighter carbon emissions targets on developing countries

This house would abolish tuition fees at university

This house would introduce a Universal Basic Income

This house believes that government economic policy should prioritise the collective happiness and well-being of the population over economic growth

This house would ban the use of Unpaid Interns

This house prefers conditional cash transfer programmes to conditional welfare payments

This house would implement a 4 day working week

This house would significantly reduce income tax rates for women

In areas of socioeconomic deprivation, This house would prioritise training students in vocational skills (such as being a mechanic, electrician, carpenter, etc.) as opposed to traditional academic subjects (history, language, advanced maths, etc.)

This house would require parents to take equal amounts of parental leave

This house believes Academic Scholarships should be based purely on economics status

This house regrets the narrative of ‘levelling up’