Our aim: Giving kids safer spaces

25 YEARS AFTER DAMILOLA MURDER, HIS LEGACY LIVES ON

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The first national youth strategy in 15 years - Nandy joked that kids have had iPhones longer - will see the Labour government invest £500million in improving youth services.

There are plans to build or refurbish 250 youth centres around the country, and to create 50 Young Futures Hubs for career and mental health advice.

The plan, linked to other bold Labour reforms, including votes at 16, the new Pride in Place neighbourhoods strategy, and Community Right to Buy, which will boost community ownership of places like youth clubs, is aimed at transforming young people's lives where they live.

"It is devastating that young people are now the loneliest age group in Britain," Fahnbulleh says. "Austerity decimated the places that brought young people together. Places that gave them a sense of belonging and for them to feel safe and where they could thrive, disappeared across the country. Today is an exciting start to a different future."