Andy Burnham has been urged to tear up hated property taxes to help business tackle Britain’s youth unemployment ‘crisis’.
The boss of shopping centre owner Landsec said the growing number youngsters not in education, employment or training – so-called NEETs – was ‘a catastrophe in slow motion for our economy’.
And in a plea to the Prime Minister and Chancellor ahead of next month’s Budget, he called for sweeping reforms to the business rates system to give firms ‘the capacity to create entry-level jobs’.
Writing in the Daily Mail online, Landsec chief executive Mark Allan said high street retailers, hospitality and leisure operators
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