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  • Political Correspondent, BBC
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BBC Political Correspondent and presenter of the Westminster Hour on Radio 4. Author of Order, Order! A history of politics and booze.

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'It is a catastrophe' - the man battling to stem rising youth unemployment

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By Kate Whannel , Ben Wright , Westminster Hour
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[BBC] "This is a story of lost lives," says Alan Milburn, as he stands outside the front door of the house where he grew up, in Benwell, Newcastle. The former New Labour minister is returning to his home town as part of his review for the government into how to stem the rising number of young people not in education, employment or training, also known as Neets. Almost a million 16 to 24-year-olds are in this group - the highest level for more than 10 years.
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Will 2026 be the year MPs and peers agree how to repair Parliament? Original

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By Ben Wright , Kate Whannel 
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Will 2026 be the year MPs and peers agree on how to repair Parliament? Ben Wright,Presenter, Westminster Hourand Kate Whannel,Political reporter EPA MPs and peers will have to make a big decision soon on whether or not to move out of the Houses of Parliament, to allow billions of pounds worth of essential maintenance work to take place. The building is "just waiting for some disaster", says House of Cards writer and peer Lord Dobbs.
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Starmer lacks coherent social mobility plan, top government adviser says Original

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By Ben Wright , George Wright 
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"But what we don't have is a coherent approach to social mobility as a useful concept that you can build a strategy around." While praising individual policies on housing and skills, he said other proposals had been "stop-start", while almost one million young people are now outside education, work or training. "We've got other policies like growth, educational improvement where we're just not sure where we're going," Francis said.
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