Suella Braverman

The hon. Lady is on a weak point there, because it was the last Conservative Government who started the apprenticeship movement, and apprenticeships peaked at around 600,000 in 2016. I was very please

I am sorry, but I do not have much time. I will try to come back to the hon. Lady. What I have described is locking our young people out of the labour market. A Reform Government would put British wor

I am afraid that is just a drop in the ocean compared with the enormity of the challenge we face. I will come on to skills and apprenticeships in one minute, but I will dwell on how we got to this gre

The right hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. That is exactly the point that I am about to make. How did we get to this youth unemployment crisis? For the past 30 years, starting with Tony Blair, we h

One million—that is the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training. Youth unemployment stands at 14%. That is a scandal and a crisis. Far from giving young people hope, th

My right hon. Friend is making a very powerful speech. Does he share my disappointment and dismay with this fact—that, for every young Brit who is hired today, 27 young foreign workers are hired? Youn