Youth unemployment is at its highest level in more than a decade.
Over a million young people aged 16-24 fall into the Neet category – not in education, employment or training. This is a crisis.
Too many businesses have stopped hiring young people because Labour have piled extra costs on to employers through their Employment Rights Act, increasing the minimum wage and hiking employers’ national insurance contributions.
At the same time, a welfare system that too often rewards inactivity has become ever harder to challenge.
But what are Labour doing to fix it? Perhaps by making it cheaper to hire young people? Or stopping
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