Pat McFadden

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

There is a design flaw in our credit system, which was built into Universal Credit on the way it was designed, which is that it is too easy for people to be signed off and written off with them receiving no help, no support, and no…

That is a system failure which has failed our young people. We should learn from their approach of having a pathway for every young person.

In the Netherlands, inactivity is a last resort, yet we all too often see young people signed off and written off, without engagement or support.

I'm going to announce another 180 next week, and these are places which get the job centre out of the job centre and meet people where they are.

We've started on this road, we've got over 100 youth [hubs] at the moment, but I am convinced that we need to turbocharge this with the roll out of many more Dutch style youth hubs in the UK.

Tens of thousands of new work experience and training placements from construction to hospitality will be made available for young people as part of Labour’s efforts to tackle joblessness.

By equipping these young people with tech and AI skills, we are making sure that the opportunities created by this technological revolution are open to everyone.

Young people deserve every opportunity to build a meaningful career, and that means making sure no one is left behind as our economy changes and technology advances.

I think prime ministers can often be beleaguered because it's a really tough job.

I don’t think you can or should do welfare reform just by saying ‘here’s a sum of money we’ve got to save’, and then you graft on the policy afterwards.

I think that is a progressive welfare reform question, because it puts work and opportunity at the heart of what you’re trying to do.

We need to change the question that the welfare system asks.

Every meeting I have is ‘who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others’.

Keir Starmer is doing a good job for the country.

Every meeting I have is 'who can we tax in order to pay benefits to others'. They're asking the wrong questions.