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The Plan To Get Work Working Again For Young People

Newscast

BBC

News, Daily News, Politics

4.36.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today, Laura and Paddy are joined by Joe Pike to look at government plans to offer young people on benefits taxpayer funded jobs in areas such as construction and hospitality.

The goal is to tackle rising unemployment, with over 900,000 young people on Universal Credit looking for work.

Plus, the team discuss Zarah Sultana’s interview with Laura on the bumpy establishment of Your Party as well as the latest defection from the tories to Reform.

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Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. The presenters were Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell, joined by Joe Pike. It was made by Anna Harris with Sophie Millward. The social producer was Darren Dutton. The technical producer was Jonny Hall. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.

0:06.0

Paddy, I managed yesterday to avoid asking you what your Spotify age was.

0:11.4

Oh, yes.

0:12.4

Well, my real age is 59.

0:14.1

Yes, we're looking tremendous on it.

0:15.8

Thank you very much.

0:16.6

And my Spotify age is 45, I think.

0:19.6

Oh, what a Groover. I don't think it's deliberate. It's just that I'm not much of a Spotify user, so I've got a little stuff on there. So the algorithm's twisted. What is it you've been listening to? All that Central C or Taylor Swift's been bringing the age down. I went into a country vibe because I was working on radio two and I had to research the current hits

0:38.9

in that area and I think that's what did it but I'm not really a big Spotify person I really

0:43.8

in my house I listened to on a different format BBC sounds of course is the premium audio platform

0:49.4

but lots of people newscasters have been getting in touch to tell us like marvellous lovely

0:54.1

swats that newscast was at the top of your list for all the things that you've listened to. So thank you very much indeed for telling us that, including B Williams, who wrote to say, Newscast got my top spot, probably a little late, but thank you for accompanying me through my year. Well, thank you for being with us, B Williams. B, we give you an A, and we now get on with Sunday's newscast.

1:15.6

Newscast from the BBC.

1:18.0

Fat boy sliver me in the classroom doing our violin lessons.

1:20.9

I was the tappletail in the class.

1:22.2

Got to have an apology, please.

1:23.6

I trust almost nobody.

1:25.2

That daddy has to sometimes do strong language. Next time in Moscow. I feel delulu with no salulu. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey. It's like a competition to see how much word smith we can get in. I was so proud for the whole of the rest of yesterday that I'd said, come for the news and stay for the nurse. I was so happy with myself.

1:45.6

I was so jealous. I was walking my dog thinking, why did she say that? No. B, now you've given us an A, so now you're just laying down the gauntlet. It's Laura in the studio. It's Paddy in the studio. And... It's also Joe Pike in the studio. Hello, Joe Pike. How very nice to have you with us.

2:00.9

Lovely to be here.

2:02.2

So today, the main news, in a kind of strange weekend, because it's actually been not a super newsy weekend and we're used to the sort of weekend. See, Paddy's shaking because you haven't got the normal like news, adrenaline, smack it into my veins. It's actually been quite a quiet news weekend. However, the big story from the government's point of view this weekend, which we spent most of our time on the telebox talking about this morning, was the dreadful situation that there are nearly a million people within the age of 16 and 24 who aren't in a job.

2:30.4

They're not training.

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