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Memorable lecture

Former prime minister, Gordon Brown, has delivered the John Harvard memorial lecture – named after the local Southwark resident and US university founder, and organised by Southwark LBC.

Mr Brown said the UK had entered ‘the age of anxiety', and the current 20% youth unemployment rate was ‘an absolute scandal', leading to a wasted generation.

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