Burnham will stand or fall on his plans for youth employment: he must put the next generation first | Polly Toynbee

Labour has to match the success of its New Deal for young people in the late 1990s – and remedy the injustices that have led to a ‘lost generation’ Today a new programme starts to help the million unemployed young people not in employment, education or training (Neets). By chance, it launches on the day Andy Burnham set out to paint a picture of his horizons with plans that put the young first, closely matching Alan Milburn’s searing review of the fate of a “lost generation”. As from now, any employer can claim £3,000 in a youth jobs grant to take on an 18- to 24-year-old who has been on unive

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