Businesses would save up to £4,500 per apprentice they hire through a wage rebate under a new pledge unveiled by Reform UK today.
The party has said it would introduce a 30 per cent ‘apprenticeship wage credit’ for small and medium-sized firms in order to boost young people in training and encourage them away from ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees.
Announcing the new proposal, Suella Braverman, Reform’s Education and Skills spokesman, said Britain ‘needs apprentices’ amid the crisis of one million young people not in employment, education or training.
Branding it a ‘betrayal’ of Britain’s young people, Ms Braverman said: ‘We realise that to completely
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