Dawn Butler, the Labour MP for Brent South, makes the demand in an essay for an Institute for Public Policy Affairs (IPPR) study, Politics for a New Generation, which was published on Monday (14 May).
In the essay Butler and co-author Julia Margo, research fellow at IPPR, highlight a number of measures to tackle the problems young people face in society, including "reinventing our civic spaces so that they are more child-friendly" and to "support families in spending more time with their children".
Margo said: "The most concerning thing we found was that people think the problems with young people is representative of society as a whole and of a decline in morality."
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