Chancellor to make case for 'contribution' ahead of youth jobs guarantee

Rachel Reeves volition accent the request for "hard enactment matched by just reward" erstwhile she unveils plans for a "youth guarantee" to thrust down unemployment.

The chancellor volition marque the lawsuit for a nine founded connected "contribution" successful her code astatine Labour's yearly league successful Liverpool today.

She is expected to corroborate plans for each young idiosyncratic who has received cosmopolitan recognition (UC) for 18 months without "earning oregon learning" to beryllium guaranteed an connection of paid work.

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Those who garbage to instrumentality up jobs without a "reasonable excuse" volition look sanctions specified arsenic losing their benefits, it is understood.

The guarantee, which volition beryllium overseen by Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden, forms portion of a pledge of "nothing little than the abolition of semipermanent younker unemployment".

Ms Reeves is expected to say: "I judge successful a Britain founded connected publication - wherever we bash our work for each other, and wherever hard enactment is matched by just reward.

"I judge successful a Britain based connected accidental - wherever mean kids tin flourish, unhindered by their background.

"And I judge that Britain's existent wealthiness is recovered not lone successful the occurrence of the fortunate few, but successful the talents of each our people, successful each portion of our large country."

It comes successful the aftermath of concerns among immoderate Labour members that the authorities needs to connection voters a clearer imaginativeness of its agenda.

Sir Keir Starmer has antecedently avoided utilizing buzzwords to specify his politics, but thinktank Labour Together published a insubstantial past week successful which it argued the conception of publication should beryllium enactment astatine the bosom of policymaking.

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Ms Reeves is expected to add: "We won't permission a procreation of young radical to languish without prospects - denied the dignity, the information and the ladders of accidental that bully enactment provides.

"Just arsenic the past Labour government, with its caller woody for young people, abolished semipermanent younker unemployment I tin perpetrate this authorities to thing little than the abolition of semipermanent younker unemployment.

"We've done it earlier and we'll bash it again."

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Sir Mel Stride, the shadiness chancellor, accused Labour of "contradictions" wrong their policies.

He said: "Rachel Reeves says she wants to abolish younker unemployment - yet successful her precise archetypal budget, she introduced a £25bn jobs taxation that made it much costly for businesses to hire, particularly young people.

"That's the contradiction astatine the bosom of Labour's plan: they speech astir opportunity, but their policies termination jobs.

"Since Labour came to power, unemployment is up. Business assurance is down. And present Reeves is trying to hole a occupation she created - portion pointing the digit of blame, arsenic she truthful often does, astatine everyone else."