Andrea Leadsom
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Youth Unemployment and Bank Bonuses
Andrea Leadsom Excerpts(12 years, 10 months ago)
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Rachel Reeves
My hon. Friend speaks for the many families and young people in all our constituencies who are experiencing a crisis, and I give him credit for recognising their challenges.
Andrea Leadsom (South Northamptonshire) (Con)
Does the hon. Lady feel at all positive about the Government’s steps to create new apprenticeships for young people to get them into real jobs that will endure?
Rachel Reeves
The reality is that the Office for Budget Responsibility has examined all the Government’s plans and predicts that unemployment will continue to rise all the way through this year, and the OECD predicts that it will rise next year as well. That is their verdict on the Government’s economic policy.