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

A letter warns Shabana Mahmood that ‘targeting refugees will do nothing to tackle’ problems with housing and the NHSMore than 100 charities have sent a letter to the home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, calling for an end to the “scapegoating of migrants”.The letter, sent before her speech at the Labour party conference in Liverpool on Monday afternoon, was coordinated by Refugee Action and signed by 105 organisations from a wide range of sectors – including Save the Children, Mind, Oxfam, Shelter, Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, as well as dozens of migrant and anti-racism charities. It has also been signed

Hope Not Hate founder Nick Lowles has spent decades researching, infiltrating and helping communities to combat far-right groups. But now, he says, ‘they have their sights on our multicultural society’For almost four decades Nick Lowles has been trying to push back against the far right. First with the research magazine Searchlight and later with the campaigning organisation Hope Not Hate that has helped foil bomb and murder plots, as well as working in communities to combat far-right propaganda.He tells Helen Pidd about growing up in the 1970s with the National Front on the rise and how in the 1980s he

Final budget outcome will show the budget is $10bn in the red. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSA continuing search for missing 4-year-old boyPolice in South Australia are still searching for a missing four-year-old boy who was last seen at his home near the town of Yunta on Saturday night. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/sep/29/australia-news-live-optus-suffers-fresh-triple-zero-glitch-labors-first-deficit-not-as-bad-as-feared Author : Nick Visser Publish date : 2025-09-28 23:23:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.