Andy Burnham today vowed to tackle Britain’s youth employment crisis – although he declined to set a deadline for cutting the number of jobless 16 to 24-year-olds.
The Prime Minister said he is ‘on a mission’ to halt the rise in the number of young people not in education, employment or training – so-called NEETs.
But he added: ‘When precisely I can get there is a hard thing to say right now.’
He pledged his intent to tackle the NEETs crisis as he unveiled plans to open up new technical education routes to 14-year-olds.
Mr Burnham is making a break with former Labour PM
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