Reeves 'risks leaving young on scrapheap'

RACHEL Reeves risks “confining Britain’s young people to the scrapheap” without extra support for businesses to hire junior staff, bosses have warned.

- By Steph Spyro Deputy Political Editor

Senior figures from Toyota and manufacturing firm JCB are among 125 top businesspeople who have written a letter to the Chancellor, right, demanding action.

They called it a “scandal” that nearly a million young people are not in employment, education or training, dubbed NEET.