EXCLUSIVE: Presenters paid to plug DWP jobs web site as share of younger folks out of labor hits 16.1%
Jordan North and William Hanson had been paid to plug the DWP job search website on podcast (Picture: Getty)
Labour has been slammed for splashing taxpayers’ money on movie star podcast adverts to advertise its job assist web site as youth unemployment hits file highs. Former Radio 1 DJ Jordan North and the etiquette professional William Hanson had been paid to plug the Division for Work and Pensions’ job search recommendations on their podcast Assist I Sexted My Boss.
The pair advised listeners “assist is on the market” and directed younger folks to the DWP’s job assist web site for “ideas to enhance your job search” and “entry to authorities assist”. However livid critics savaged the transfer as a waste of cash, demanding Labour make it simpler for companies to rent staff as a substitute of paying for “costly movie star podcast adverts”.
Conservative Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary Helen Whately mentioned: “Labour’s development technique is a fantasy. After killing jobs throughout the nation and youth employment hits file highs, the Authorities appears to assume the answer is promoting job recommendation on podcasts.”
She added: “Each Labour Authorities has left unemployment larger than it discovered it, and this one isn’t any totally different. We’d like severe options, and we by no means get them.”
Youth unemployment within the UK lately hit 16.1%, the best in over a decade and much more than on the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ms Whately warned: “Britain can not develop with a Authorities that taxes work and smothers enterprise.
“Labour have hiked taxes by £60billion, pushing the tax burden to a file excessive. Increased taxes squeeze companies, squeezed companies cease hiring, rising unemployment weakens the financial system additional.
“Solely the Conservatives are providing a severe various that backs work, rewards ambition, and will get Britain working once more.”
They added: “We’re offering this assist via £1.5billion in funding, enabling companies to rent younger folks by absolutely funding apprenticeships for SMEs, creating 50,000 extra apprenticeships in precedence development sectors and rolling out our Youth Assure so each younger particular person has the possibility to earn or study.
“As well as, former well being secretary Alan Milburn is conducting a serious evaluate to have a look at the boundaries stopping younger folks discovering work.”
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