Sir Nicholas Soames and I are currently drafting a bill to ensure that the time really has come for a job guarantee scheme ( Editorial: Both sides of the Atlantic should embrace an idea offering hope in grim times , 4 May).
The aim of our bill is to place the abolition of long-term unemployment at the heart of a post-Brexit reform agenda. It would do so by introducing a new duty under which the government guarantees six months’ paid work in the private, voluntary or public sector, for people who either have joined or are at risk of joining […]
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