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The last main reform introduced by Ms Kendall is the plan to drive down financial inactivity resulting from sick well being.

She mentioned: “The health secretary (Wes Streeting) is already taking action to get people back to health and back to work with extra support to drive down waiting lists in the 20 NHS Trusts with the highest levels of economic activity”.

The work and pensions secretary mentioned the second main reform is the brand new youth assure.

It will “bring together all the support for 18 to 21 year olds under the leadership of majors and local areas” so that each one younger folks have entry to coaching and schooling.

Ms Kendall thunders that “under this Labour government, if you can work, you must work”.

Unveiling a Youth Guarantee, Ms Kendall instructed the Commons: “This comes alongside our commitment to provide mental health support in every school, our work experience and careers advice offer, and our plans to reform the last government’s failed apprenticeship levy to give more young people the opportunities they deserve.

“But our new Youth Guarantee will go further, bringing together all the support for 18 to 21-year-olds under the leadership of mayors and local areas so all young people have access to education, training and employment opportunities, and so that no young person misses out.”

The minister introduced eight Youth Guarantee “trailblazers” within the Liverpool City Region, West Midlands, Tees Valley, East Midlands, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, West of England, and two areas in Greater London, backed by £45 million.

She continued: “I can also announce a new national partnership to provide exciting opportunities for young people in sports, arts and culture, starting with some of Britain’s most iconic cultural and sporting organisations including the Premier League, the Royal Shakespeare Company, and Channel 4, building on the brilliant work they already do to inspire and engage the younger generation and get them on the pathway to success.”

Ms Kendall later mentioned: “In return for these new opportunities, you have a responsibility to take them up, because being unemployed or lacking basic qualifications when you’re young can harm your job prospects and wages for the rest of your life, and that is not good enough for young people or for our country.”

Ms Kendall mentioned the “benefits bill for sickness and disability is set to rise by £26bn by the end of this Parliament.

She said the Tories have failed “to create good jobs” or ship on the NHS or reform welfare.

Ms Kendall instructed MPs that “nothing short of fundamental reform” is required and that the employment fee has not returned to pre-pandemic ranges, in contrast to our G7 counterparts.

She mentioned a close to 2.8 million individuals are out of labor on long run illness and virtually 1 million younger folks not in schooling, employment or coaching.

The work and pensions secretary is now asserting the wide-ranging reforms designed to deal with financial inactivity and ship the federal government’s promise to carry greater than two million folks again into work.

Sir Keir Starmer dangers a blow to his pledge to reset relations with the European Union after Brexit amid fears one in every of his key allies might be ousted in Friday’s elections in Ireland.

The Labour prime minister has constructed a powerful private rapport with the Irish chief Simon Harris since his election in July.

But a brand new ballot for the Irish Times suggests Mr Harris’ Fine Gael has slumped from first to 3rd place – after a gaffe which has been in comparison with Gordon Brown’s 2010 ‘bigoted woman’ feedback.

Working with the 12 metro mayors, Labour has pledged to take a position £15 million and devolve energy to native areas to create work plans tailor-made to native wants.

The authorities says this may ship “real employment opportunities for people who know their communities best.” Liverpool Mayor Steve Rotheram mentioned: “Devolution is already making a huge difference to people’s lives in the Liverpool City Region.

“We’ve helped thousands of people into work, created opportunities for young people through apprenticeships, and supported adults to gain the skills they need to thrive.

“That’s why I welcome the government’s plans to give Mayors more of the tools and resources we need to break down the barriers keeping people out of work.”

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Russia has expelled a British diplomat, accusing him of espionage, the Interfax information company cited Russia’s FSB safety service as saying on Tuesday.

The TASS information company cited Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova as saying that the ministry had summoned the British ambassador.

According to the FSB, the British diplomat was a alternative for one in every of six UK diplomats expelled in August, additionally on espionage fees. It mentioned the diplomat had supplied false data on his paperwork and carried out espionage and sabotage actions.

There was no rapid remark from Britain’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. The British embassy in Moscow didn’t reply to a request for remark.

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