Jobless, isolated, fed misogynistic porn… where is the love for Britain’s lost boys? | Sonia Sodha

Girls outperform boys at GCSEs and A-levels, and the ratio of women to men at university is 60:40 .

Boys are more than twice as likely to be excluded from school, with rates of exclusion particularly high for those from disadvantaged backgrounds.

This is all feeding through into labour market outcomes, with young men significantly more likely than young women.

In the last election, young men were twice as likely to vote for Reform as young women.

The gap reflects a growing attitudinal gap in attitudes to young men.

But young men are no less deserving of a specific policy and cultural focus than women.

Failing to do so could also have political consequences, as seen across Europe .