of bringing in more sanctions on people who refuse to look for work. what keir starmer is going to outline instead is a reform to the system. he s going to talk about the creation of a combined national jobs and careers service, and what labour s calling a youth guarantee to get 18 to 21 year olds into training and employment. they say that by getting more people into work, that ll bring the benefits bill down. the conservatives will be announcing 30 towns that they would extend an existing government fund to if they win the election a government scheme. these towns would get £20 million each for long term projects to improve things like high streets and transport, as a form of levelling up. the snp is campaigning in north east scotland. no big policy push from them today they will instead be focusing on their appeal to voters to kick out the tories, who they say backed boris and brexit. and the liberal democrats will be talking football they ll be pushing their policy of forcin
said this yesterday, so we re waiting to hear from her to confirm if she will indeed do so. the crucial thing, though, is that it is now very clearly her choice, not that of the party. now, labour will be hoping, i think, that that story, that row has concluded enough that it stops being a distraction from the campaign messages that it s trying to put out. and today we are going to hear from keir starmer on the topic of benefits and employment support. he is going to say that under labour those who can work will work. now those sound like strong words, but labour is not going to set out the sort of crackdown that we ve heard of from the conservatives in recent months, the idea of bringing in more sanctions on people who refuse to look for work. what keir starmer is going to outline instead is a reform to the system. he s going to talk about the creation of a combined national jobs and careers service and what labour is calling a youth guarantee to get 18 to 2i year olds into training a
the crucial thing, though, is that it is now very clearly her choice, not that of the party. now, labour will be hoping, i think, that that story, that row, has concluded enough that it stops being a distraction from the campaign messages that it s trying to put out. and today we are going to hear from keir starmer on the topic of benefits and employment support. he is going to say that under labour those who can work will work. now those sound like strong words, but labour is not going to set out the sort of crackdown that we ve heard of from the conservatives in recent months, the idea of bringing in more sanctions on people who refuse to look for work. what keir starmer is going to outline instead is a reform to the system. he s going to talk about the creation of a combined national jobs and careers service and what labour is calling a youth guarantee to get 18 to 21 year olds into training and employment. they say that by getting more people into work, that ll bring the benefits b
portfolio that she has been overseeing all ready to do with levelling up and taking the labour side of that argument with the conceptus. you are hearing a couple there from ione about this plan to get people back into work, so unifying job centre plus and the careers service into one service, a one stop shop to help people. that idea to get local plans and also to have a youth guarantee so that young people, 18 21 year olds would have training or help to find jobs. the conservatives say this is waffle, not welfare reform, that there isn t much actual substance to it. we will put that to them and see what they say in a few minutes. conservatives have their own, obviously a whole load of welfare policies they have
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