Generation axe
LABOUR grandee Alan Milburn describes the throwing of nearly a million kids on the jobs scrapheap as a “catastrophe”.
It is bad enough that Rachel Reeves’ punishing tax hikes on business — especially hospitality and retail — have killed off thousands of entry-level jobs.
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Benefits are more attractive than work to some young people Credit: Getty
Thousands of entry-levels jobs have been killed off, especially in hospitality and retail Credit: Getty
But the complete failure by Labour to reform welfare has also made benefits more attractive than work to some young people.
Why take a low-paid job when you can get more in Government handouts?
Since Covid, tens of thousands of under-25s have been allowed to claim mental health benefits largely unsupervised and unchecked.
There is often no requirement to ever look for a job.
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Milburn says unless urgent action is taken, the number of jobless youngsters may soar to 1.25million within five years.
Whoever ends up being Prime Minister after Labour’s self-inflicted leadership infighting cannot afford to leave this broken system any longer.
Hard choices must be made — and fast.
Battling odds
IF there is one example of how previous Governments lost control of immigration, it’s in the skewing of our jobs market against Brit workers.
Voters were promised that, post Brexit, numbers of foreigners coming here to work would be controlled.
Yesterday a report from the Centre for Social Justice laid bare the shattering of that pledge.
Migrants aged under 25 from countries outside the EU rocketed by 355 per cent in just five years.
There are now 27 young non-EU workers hired for every extra young Brit added to the payroll.
Home-born workers are being squeezed out by this wave. The odds are so stacked against them it’s no wonder some young people are losing hope.
They are the victims of a migration surge that threatens to change Britain forever.
Soft in the Ed
IT’S hard to imagine Tony Blair in his pomp as Prime Minister being pushed around by one of his ministers.
Yet somehow Keir Starmer has ended up being unable to control his Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.
Yesterday Blair once again urged Starmer to rein in Miliband’s Net Zero delusions.
As he rightly pointed out, Britain’s emissions make up just one per cent of the global total.
We are the only country in the world that imports oil and gas while banning drilling in our own waters.
Blair stopped short yesterday of saying Miliband should be fired.
But if Starmer was as strong a leader as three-time election winner Blair, he would already have done so.
