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Burnham Blames Politicians for Youth Unemployment

Violet Woolf

Prime minister seeks urgent meeting with whoever runs the country LONDON – Andy Burnham has identified politicians as the principal cause of Britain’s youth employment difficulties and is understood to be seeking urgent access to somebody with enough political authority to do something about them. In his LADbible interview, reported by POLITICO’s London Playbook, the prime minister said: “I blame politicians first and foremost.” Downing Street immediately began establishing whether…

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200,000 Work Opportunities: Any With Wages?

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Young jobseekers ask for hours, pay and a bus route LONDON – Young jobseekers have responded to government announcements of 100,000 hospitality opportunities and 100,000 retail opportunities by asking whether an opportunity comes with wages, guaranteed hours and a place they can reach. The figures appear in POLITICO’s welfare briefing, where ministers are preparing to argue that the current system cannot continue. Applicants broadly agreed, particularly the part involving continuing…