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Articles by Alan Milburn
'Doing nothing on welfare costs lives and will see another generation failed'
The Chancellor said it himself this week - we will not write off a generation of young people. From the minimum wage to apprenticeships, this government is sending a clear message. But there is more to be done. A lot more. One million young people aged 16 to 24 are not in education, employment or training. One in eight. A generation at risk of being lost. That is a disaster - for them and for the country. And it isn't normal. In the Netherlands it's 4%. Here it's 13%. Only Romania is worse.
Business leaders urged to give the ‘Neets’ a chance
Derby Telegraph | September 23, 2026 THE former Labour minister leading the Government's review into youth unemployment has written to 100 firms to ask them to provide work placements and jobs for young people. Alan Milburn, who was commissioned by former prime minister Sir Keir Starmer to lead the Government's review into worklessness, has approached “business leaders” in sectors including rail, transport and utilities to ask them to provide more chances for young people.
Alan Milburn: 'Young people are not lazy, distracted or entitled
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‘Tech Is Capable of Revolutionising Healthcare,’ Says Alan Milburn
Our health service is unwell. You’ve read the news stories – staff at breaking point, pitiless waiting times, patients languishing in corridors. The problems it faces are deep and knotty, though hope is not lost. Whether the solutions lie in smarter funding, technological innovation, or even our own actions, there are bright minds at work to find them. For this series, MH assembled a team of field-leading thinkers to share their strategies. What condition is the NHS in at present?
Class Pay Gap: Wenn die Klassenherkunft über den Lohn entscheidet
Viele professionelle Arbeitsplätze in Großbritannien teilen ein beschämendes Geheimnis. Arbeitnehmer:innen aus der Arbeiterklasse erhalten im Durchschnitt 6.718 Pfund (7.680 Euro) pro Jahr weniger als Arbeitnehmer:innen aus besser gestellten Schichten, selbst wenn sie die gleiche Arbeit verrichten. Diejenigen, die von diesem Lohngefälle betroffen sind, werden doppelt getroffen, da die Lebenshaltungskostenkrise auch ihr Einkommen auffrisst.
£7,000 a year - that’s the hit to your salary if you come from a working-class family
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian Many of Britain’s professional workplaces share a shameful secret. Working-class employees are paid an average of £6,718 a year less than those from better-off backgrounds even when they are doing the same job. Those on the receiving end of this class pay gap are being hit by a double whammy as the cost of living crisis also eats into their incomes.
Alan Milburn: There is an education emergency post-Covid. The new Prime Minister will need a long-term plan to tackle it.
Alan Milburn is the Chair of the Social Mobility Foundation, and served in the Cabinet under Labour governments between 1998 and 2010. Playing to the audience is what happens in a political leadership campaign.
Brexit dangerously overshadows the UK’s social mobility crisis
The unravelling of the UK’s relationship with the EU, if it happens, will take time and the impact on our economy and society will be...
Listening to labour
Workers on boards would prevent the short-termism that brought down Carillion, believes Emma Reynolds On a cold, dark Monday in January, Carillion’s 20,000 employees, including 400 at their headquarters in Wolverhampton, woke up to an uncertain future. The construction giant had gone into liquidation leaving 450 government contracts up in the air and hundreds of firms in the company’s supply chain worried about whether they would ever be paid.
Tick tock - Progress
As the clock runs down on Brexit, Richard Carr charts the 2018 talking points As Tony Blair has pointed out, 2018 will be the year that makes or breaks Brexit. At present, on the biggest question to face the United Kingdom in decades, Labour is not only on the fence but too often sounds like an ill-qualified candidate waffling through a job interview.
Two houses - Progress
Members of both parliamentary chambers are working together to shape Brexit. Peter Mandelson and Alison McGovern explain how In the 2010 to 2015 parliament, the opposition in the House of Commons beat the government in a meaningful vote six times, including twice in foolishness when the whips where caught napping. In the same parliament, in the House of Lords however, the opposition beat the government on no less than one hundred occasions.
A gap in the market
Labour’s centre-left must become the radicals they once were and own the future, writes Alan Milburn Not so long ago, politics was a closed shop. Discourse and debate were the preserve of members of parliament, party members and political commentators. Now politics belongs to millions. The internet has democratised political debate. I view that as a good thing. The downside is those with the loudest voices and the sharpest messages often dominate the airwaves.
Too limited, too slow
At a time when more and more people feel like they are losing out, social mobility matters more than ever before, writes Alan Milburn For two decades, successive governments have made the pursuit of higher levels of social mobility one of the holy grails of public policy.?The good news is that policies like the national minimum wage, record levels of investment in public services and reforms to those services delivered real results. Unemployment is lower and employment higher.
Commentary: Five changes to future proof the NHS
Alan Milburn, former Labour health secretary and chair, PricewaterhouseCoopers health industries oversight boardnewhealth{at}uk.pwc.comEngland’s care system is at an inflection point. Demands are rising and performance is deteriorating. Siren voices are once again sounding the death knell of a “free at the point of use” NHS. They miss the point. What needs to change is not how it is funded but its level of resources and how it is organised.
Defend Labour’s economic record - the facts support us
January 27, 2015 7:27 pm Defend Labour’s economic record – the facts support us John Hutton and Alan Milburn The last government was one...
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