Richard Partington

And therefore, employers in those sectors like hospitality and retail aren't making as much money to cover their wage bills.

I think this is the hardest part of the issue.

I mean, Milburn talks about a system reset.

Now, to me, that sounds very familiar to language that we'd heard before the general election from Keir Starmer about mission-based government and needing to... Oh, that's a nostalgic phrase.

It's a nostalgic phrase that we don't hear much about today.

But, I mean, Milburn talked about, you know, if ever there was a mission that...

a politician, if it's Keir Starmer or a replacement as Labour leader, ever needs to champion, it is cutting across this multitude of issues that affects youth unemployment.

And that's going to involve, as he put it, benefits.

It's going to involve employment support,

It's also going to involve schools reforming education, making it less exam focused and more preparing for work in future.

It's going to involve social policy questions and technology.

So smartphones, social media ban, for example.

And it's going to involve the tech system.

It's going to involve companies and employers taking a more active and engaged role with young people.

It's a huge issue.

And I think Milburn, speaking at the launch today,

took these on really head-on like he said there are no easy solutions i mean we get a lot of populist politicians saying with this one simple solution we can fix everything um i think that the the issue here is that change is difficult uh and there's going to be a lot of different things that need to be done to to address this yeah well richard fascinating thank you so much thank you