Gary Stevenson: ‘The left has a problem when it comes to how it perceives young men’

Gary Stevenson: ‘The left has a problem when it comes to how it perceives young men’

Gary Stevenson was born 39 years ago in Ilford, one of the working-class towns in East London overshadowed by the city’s financial district skyscrapers, into which local youth typically venture only to deliver food or sell illegal wares. He started working as a trader for Citibank in 2008 at just 22 years old, thanks to his tremendous talent for mathematics and ambition of nearly the same scale. A few years later, he had become one of the compan…