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Hello and welcome to you, Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman, and this is the Sunday roundup. This week the focus is on

youth unemployment, benefits and an appearance from Zara Saltona, the co-founder of the new political

group now officially called Your Party. The number of 16 to 24 year olds not in employment, education

or training is now at almost a million,

and the government have announced an £820 million youth guarantee scheme to help young people

into work. This morning, work and pension secretary Pat McFadden admitted that benefits may be taken

away from those who don't engage with the scheme. All right, let's talk about your own territory.

You're promising this morning that nearly a million young people on universal credit

will benefit from training or work under the Youth Guarantee Scheme.

Does that mean that if they don't take up the offer, or as you put it in the press release, engage with the scheme, that their benefits under universal credit will be withdrawn?

Yeah, they could be. We see this as both an offer and an obligation. I look at a lot of slides in the Department of Working Pensions

and some of the slides that have struck me most in the few months that I've been in there

have been the ones showing the rising number of young people,

not in education, employment or training.

Not for the last year or six months, but for the last

four years or so. That's when it really started to rise. But four years ago, it was about

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