Sir Keir Starmer staked his political vision on the country’s young people in a personal interview over the weekend.

“Young people have been collateral damage for the failure of past governments and I intend to turn that around,” he told The Observer .

Starmer unveiled a mew scheme to get 16-24-year-olds back into with the offer of employment but polling experts told The i Paper Labour’s support among young people is being stripped away by the “eco-populism” of the new Greens leader, Zack Polanski.

While Labour was the most popular party among 18 to 24-year-olds in every YouGov poll this decade until last year’s election, its support among this group has since plummeted.

Between July last year and this month, Labour have fallen from 47 to 22 per cent among this cohort, while th

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