With the Milburn Report on youth unemployment just a week away, Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy examine the growing pressure on Labour to tackle the issue. And with the head of the civil service, Antonia Romeo, preparing Whitehall for a spending squeeze, the Conservatives are planning to set out how they would trim £36bn from the benefits bill. Where will the money come from and who will bear the costs? Elsewhere, Sam hears some rumblings that Number 10 North is already being branded a “government think tank”. Plus, does the weekly polling show signs of a Tory fightback and are Reform beginning to suffer?
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