Angela Rayner has said a growing number of young people in Britain have been left feeling hopeless about their futures, in what will be interpreted as a warning to Sir Keir Starmer. The former deputy prime minister, who is reported to being weighing up a direct challenge to Starmer’s leadership after next week’s local elections, has said in an exclusive interview that “more and more young people are feeling there isn’t an investment in their future now”. Rayner spoke of the challenges facing Generation Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – taking the rare step of talking about...