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PM Burnham calls UK youth employment crisis 'an economic catastrophe and a moral failure'

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said that nearly a million young people aged 16–24 outside employment, education and training constitute 'an economic catastrophe and a moral failure'. This week the government will announce a plan with tens of thousands of jobs and apprenticeships, and in November Alan Milburn's review on youth and work will be published. Conservatives and the Greens criticised the government's approach.

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Press review: NEET crisis as a 'moral failure', a 'tax raid' on family business and a 'credit crunch'

British newspapers on 19 October 2026 discuss Prime Minister Andy Burnham's plans regarding a million NEET young people, a possible tax on passing on a family business in Chancellor John Healey's 28 October budget, a ban on supermarket promotions, IPPR calls to return the UK to the EU, protests in France and threats to the $10 trillion AI boom in the US.

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