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Hello there and welcome to The Restis Politics with me, Aleister Campbell. Now, we get loads and loads and loads of emails and of messages and of comments about what we do in the podcast

at or close to the top it relates to young people and in particular i would argue so-called gen z

14 to 29 what's going on with them what kind of world are they living in? What kind of world are they going to

inherit? What if they do have kids, are their kids going to inherit? How much we should be

worried? Have we seen all this before? And it's just a kind of a phase that the world is going through.

So we should take it seriously. And we are. We've put together a four-part series on this not a moan

fest not a oh bloody kids moan fest or rant something that we hope is balanced because the

picture is nuanced and it's complicated so which is it is gen z lucky or is gen left behind? That's what this series is going to investigate.

So we brought in a journalist Vicky Spratt, who first came to my attention when she wrote a very good book about housing,

but who has spent the better part of a decade speaking to hundreds, hundreds of young people about these questions.

So she's going to be guiding us through four episodes

and she's going to be joined by specialists along the way.

Here's episode one,

Lucky or Left Behind, the Gen Z Money Story.

So let us set about this task at every level, radical improvement and reform for our children.

Freedom is a precious gift that one generation can pass to the next

and a promise that I intend to keep.

We know the importance of those early years and setting children up for a good life.

Your dreams are our dreams.

Genzy. Genzy. setting children up for a good life. Your dreams are our dreams.

Gen Z. Gen Z.

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