The $30 billion welfare bill: a ticking time bomb

The Labour party's failure to address youth unemployment has resulted in a massive surge in the number of young people not in education,employment, or training (NEETs). This is a failure of schools, the health service, and skills training, and the party must take urgent action to address this issue.

The current welfare system is unaffordable and unsustainable, and the party must overhaul it to make work a desirable option and state-funded idleness a last resort.

The party must also abandon its anti-business prejudices and address this unfolding tragedy before it's too late, as the hopes of a disillusioned generation depend on it.

Alan Milburn's warning:a 'lost generation' on the horizon

Former health secretary Alan Milburn has warned that Labour is at risk of presiding over a 'lost generation' unless it takes urgent action to address youth unemployment.

More than 950,000 young people aged betweeen 16 and 24 are currently not in education, employment, or training (NEETs), with the number set to rise to 1.25 million by 2031.

Milburn has called on Labour to make it easier for firms to take on new staff by scrapping the increase in employers' National Insurance payments and Angela Rayner's misguided workers' rights legislation.

The collapse of the work ethic: a false prospectus for young people

Many young people were sold the idea that a university degree would guarantee a well-paying job, but this has proven to be a false prospectus.

Crippling student debt and unfulfilled career aspirations have left a generation feeling deceived and disillusioned.

The party must overhaul the welfare system to make work a desirable option and state-funded idleness a last resort, and abandon its anti-business prejudices to address this unfolding tragedy before it's too late.