Young people should get fewer welfare benefits, according to Milburn review on the workforce – UK politics live

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A UK review is considering reducing welfare benefits for young people as policymakers respond to rising numbers not in education, employment, or training. Separately, Prime Minister Andy Burnham used the opening of COP31 to promote clean-energy projects, affordability of the transition, and a new climate-security representative.

Milburn’s review is considering how to address the growing number of young people classified as not in education, employment or training “Britain is back and ready to play its full part,” Andy Burnham has said at the opening of today’s Cop31 summit. The UK prime minister celebrated domestic clean energy projects including windfarms and electrified steel factories, stressed the need to make the transition affordable, and announced the UK’s first special representative for climate security, Madeleine Alessandri. Continue reading...