Steph McGovern

There's so many elements to this, but do you genuinely think we're going to see change?

Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Money with me, Steph McGovern.

Now, Robert is currently in the Gulf with the Prime Minister at the time of recording this.

I'm sure he'll have lots to tell us about it when he's back.

So I've been left in charge.

And today we have a friend of the show on, Alan Milburn, who's a familiar face in British politics.

He served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care under Tony Blair.

He was responsible for modernising the NHS, marrying together parts of the public and private sector.

And he is also hot on social mobility as the former chair of the Social Mobility Commission.

And in that vein, he's now very much focused on looking at the issues of unemployment and particularly those needs we talk about, you know, the one million young people not in employment, education or training sector.

It's been described as a national emergency.

So I want to find out from Alan what the problem is and what he's doing about it.

So here's my interview with Alan Milburn.

Alan, it's great to have you back.

You were last on in July 2024.

Now, I can't believe that.

It doesn't feel like two years has gone by, but, you know, we're nearly at two years.

No, I know.

I mean, very quiet, very quiet.

things are changing in the minutes at the moment, aren't they?