Covid is far more fatal for the old than the young. But it is the young who have borne the economic and social brunt of the pandemic. It is, as I say in The Times today, a basic matter of fairness that the government now tries to help them.
The government does have schemes such as Kickstart and the bonus for taking on apprentices designed to prevent mass youth unemployment. But if there are limits on how many people firms can have in offices or factories even after 21 June, they will be reluctant to take on apprentices, even if the government is offering them thousands of pounds to do so.
The biggest challenge for our leaders, though, is ending the generational bias in politics. Older people turn out to vote more than the young: almost three quarters of pensioners voted at the last general election, compared with just under half of the under-25s.
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