Lucy Powell: “It’s a hamster wheel with many young people constantly being branded a failure and having to resit.”

This is not about my job or anybody else’s job, this is about creating jobs in every part of the country and making sure that people have got opportunity, hope, well-paid decent work, they’ve got a home they can afford to live in and…

This Government is determined to help thousands more young people gain the skills, experience and confidence they need to build successful careers.

it's actually about the attention and the focus, so that the whole of government machinery can work in service of the agenda and the vision that the Labour government is setting out under Andy Burnham

One million. That’s how many young people from the education system Michael Gove presided over who are now left outside education, not in employment and not in training. That’s not a coincidence – it’s a consequence. It’s his legacy.