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Is the summer job what it used to be?

Research suggests that fewer teenagers are choosing to work over their summer break. Is it more important to polish your CV or does work experience build character?

Author and former MEP Stanley Johnson tells The World Tonight's Ritula Shah about his youth work exploits and how his children (including Boris Johnson, now foreign secretary) achieved rite of passage from their summer jobs.

(Photo: Stanley Johnson. Credit: 麻豆社)

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