NEET Stats: Govt must "scrap the unfair jobs tax" to save a generation of young people from unemployment

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NEET Stats: Govt must "scrap the unfair jobs tax" to save a generation of young people from unemployment

Responding to Alan Milburn's report on youth unemployment and the ONS report showing that now over a million young people are not in education, employment or training, Daisy Cooper MP, Liberal Democrat Treasury Spokesperson, said:

“Today's shocking figures confirm what we already knew: that an entire generation of young people are seeing their hopes and dreams ripped away, just as they enter what is meant to be the best years of their life.

"And Labour cannot claim they were not warned. We Liberal Democrats repeatedly warned that Labour’s jobs tax would hammer job opportunities for young people and that their business rates hikes would kill off high street job opportunities too which give so many people young people their first job.

“The Government must urgently take action to unlock the skills and opportunities young people need to build a future they can actually believe in. This starts with a proper plan to get our economy growing again, scrapping the unfair jobs hike, throwing hospitality a lifeline and supercharging skills training and apprenticeships.”

ENDS