Campaigners have called for the return of youth clubs after a landmark study found that millennials are more likely to admit to suffering chronic loneliness than any other age group.
One in ten people aged between 16 and 24 say that they often or always feel lonely, compared with slightly more than one in 20 of all adults. The finding confounds assumptions that elderly people are most prone to loneliness.
Experts blamed social media — which can stoke feelings of jealousy and isolation, and host cyberbullying — and the rise in popularity of videogames, which are often played alone.
The new analysis by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) found the next highest rate among those aged 25-34, of whom 6 per cent said that