Pandemic damages life prospects of all young Britons, report says

Covid generation of under-25s less likely to fulfil potential, regardless of background

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The Covid generation faces a dark age" of entrenched low social mobility, according to a report on the unprecedented economic and educational shocks of the pandemic.

The pandemic will damage the life prospects of all Britons aged under 25, regardless of their background, the report by the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) says.