This is a visceral issue for the country.

Leading this review into young people and employment for the government.

If they formed a city, that would be the third biggest in the UK.

So it's one in eight, from 16 to 24 year old.

So the scale of it is enormous.

There's so many elements to this, but do you genuinely think we're going to see change?

You might have anxiety and depression.

But diagnosis shouldn't automatically lead to you being signed off by a GP with a fit note.

Then politically, this is a huge issue for the government.

Let's remember this is a government that was elected on a one-word slogan.

What was it? Change.

Hello and welcome to The Rest is Money with me, Steph McGovern. Now, Robert is currently in the

Gulf with the Prime Minister at the time of recording this. I'm sure he'll have lots to tell us

about it when he's back. So I've been left in charge and today we have a friend of the show on

Alan Milburn, who's a familiar face in British politics. He served as Secretary of State

for Health and Social Care under Tony Blair.

He was responsible for modernising the NHS, marrying together parts of the public and private

sector. And he is also hot on social mobility as the former chair of the Social Mobility Commission.

And in that vein, he's now very much focused on looking at the issues of unemployment and particularly

those needs we talk about, you know, the one million young people not in employment, education or training.

It's been described as a national emergency. So I want to find out from Alan what the problem is and what he's doing about it. So here's my interview with Alan Melbourne. Alan, it's great to have you back. You were last on in July 2024. Now, I can't believe that. It doesn't feel like two years has gone by. But, you know, we're nearly two years. There's not been much happening really, has there? No, I know. I mean, very quiet, very quiet.

Very quiet, honestly.

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