Rachel Reeves says Labour’s Youth Guarantee will ‘abolish long-term youth unemployment’ – UK politics live
According to a report by The Guardian… Chancellor will make pledge at Labour party conference in echo of Gordon Brown’s flagship schemeGood morning. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, was a student when the Blair government was in power and one of her heroes at the time was Gordon Brown, who ran the Treasury for 10 years. One of Brown’s flagship measures was an employment programme for young people (the new deal) and today Reeves says she wants to achieve something similar. In her speech she will say:At the spending review, I pledged record investment in skills to support our young people. And so today, I can announce that with that investment we will fund a new Youth Guarantee …We won’t leave a generation of young people to languish without prospects – denied the dignity, the security and the ladders of opportunity that good work provides. Continue reading… complete report is on below link. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/29/rachel-reeves-labour-party-conference-youth-guarantee-unemployment-uk-politics-live-latest-news
