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Rachel Reeves says Labour’s Youth Guarantee will ‘abolish long-term youth unemployment’ – UK politics live


Chancellor will make pledge at Labour party conference in echo of Gordon Brown’s flagship scheme

Rachel Reeves is on LBC, being interviewed by Nick Ferrari.

Reeves says almost one million young people are not in work or training. That amounts to one in eight, she says, 18 to 24-year-olds.

At the spending review, I pledged record investment in skills to support our young people. And so today, I can announce that with that investment we will fund a new Youth Guarantee …

We won’t leave a generation of young people to languish without prospects – denied the dignity, the security and the ladders of opportunity that good work provides.

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Publish date : 2025-09-29 06:56:00

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