00:00A new survey by the Adam Smith Institute asked thousands of people aged 18 to 30 a simple question.
00:09Given the choice, would you choose to stay in Britain or would you rather leave?
00:14More than half thought about emigrating.
00:17Young people are disillusioned with a lot.
00:20Hey, welcome to the modern world.
00:23And indeed, you go back sort of centuries ago, you would hear the same sort of thing.
00:27It's a kind of rite of passage, but I do think there's something more to this insofar as people and younger people in particular,
00:34they are sort of feeling that the world is not what they want it to be.
00:38Of course, the challenge is to try and sort of create a better world.
00:41But we live in sort of very difficult times, particularly, of course, in terms of getting on the housing ladder, access to the NHS,
00:50people coming out of university with really good degrees and not being able to sort of get jobs.
00:53and even the jobs they get are sort of short term, gig type sort of jobs, the gig economy and the sort of short term working and whatever else.
01:03So put all that together, people are sort of looking to sort of elsewhere, maybe the grass is greener.
01:09Researchers say housing is the biggest concern, with 65% believing it will become harder to afford a home in the next five years.
01:17Young voters from all major parties express similar worries about housing, access, wages and financial security.
01:27The study warns that unless things change, the UK could face a growing ambition exodus just when younger workers are most needed.
01:36The irony is, of course, up until Brexit, and of course, Brexit probably kicked in after sort of the get Brexit done election in 2019.
01:44And of course, we're now sort of seeing the sort of the full impact of that.
01:47It would have been possible to go and try your luck in another European country with all the access to the services that we have in this country.
01:54And of course, employment. That, of course, is now not impossible, so much more difficult.
01:59I suspect that some people have been attracted to the sort of the Far East, perhaps, maybe even the Middle East, where sort of jobs exist.
02:06America, well, who knows?
02:08Young people like to travel, to experience different things.
02:11I suspect that eventually maybe come back to this country.
02:14So really difficult times, and I have great sympathies.
02:16And of course, what we've got to remember is the sort of the current Labour government came in only what sort of just over a year and a half ago,
02:23promising for better times.
02:25And that so far is not transpiring.
02:27Indeed, quite the contrary.
02:28So worrying.
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