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No place for the young

Challenges facing the Starmer government
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December 2024, no. 471

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s next generation by Danny Dorling

Hurst, £14.99, 305 pp

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No place for the young

Challenges facing the Starmer government
by
December 2024, no. 471

Britain today is no place for young people. The evidence is as familiar as it is stark. One million of the nation’s fourteen million children experienced destitution in 2022, meaning that their families could not afford to adequately feed or clothe them or keep them warm. In 2024, a record 150,000 lived in temporary accommodation in England. The long-standing decline in infant mortality has stalled. Facts like these, concerning the families struggling most, are often cited as proof of atrophy under Conservative austerity (which, while destructive in its own right, degraded Britain’s resilience against Covid-19 and the energy crisis that followed) and as indicators of the issues that Keir Starmer’s new Labour government should prioritise. But what do we miss by focusing on the worst-off?

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s next generation

Seven Children: Inequality and Britain’s next generation

by Danny Dorling

Hurst, £14.99, 305 pp

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ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.

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