Labour leader Ed Miliband warns of a ‘jilted generation’

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Taking a phrase invented by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik for their book, published by Icon last year, Labour leader Ed Miliband is today arguing that the UK risks creating a ‘jilted generation’ of younger people whose prospects of a stable, worry-free future are increasingly slim.

As the BBC reports, Miliband will argue that the “Jam generation” of politicians – like Mr Cameron and Chancellor George Osborne who grew up listening to the band The Jam in the 1980s and now dominate government – is in danger of creating the “jilted generation”.

Read the BBC’s story about the speech here, the Guardian’s here and more about the book here.