Paxman calls baby boomers 'most selfish generation'

Broadcaster lashes out as study claims young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents

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NEWSNIGHT presenter Jeremy Paxman has turned his famously acid tongue on himself and his fellow baby boomers, labelling them "the most selfish generation in history".

Writing in the Daily Mail, Paxman says what he calls the "Lucky Generation", born between 1945 and 1965, are at least partly responsible for the findings of a new study that claims today's young will be 25 per cent worse off than their parents when they reach the age of 65.

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