Kay Oliver: UK Correspondent on the conflict between the Tories and Labour over unemployment plans

The UK’s Tory party is accusing Labour of stealing their ideas around unemployment resolution.

Labour MP Liz Kendall says that her party intends on generating new jobs and an employment scheme, while her counterpart Helen Whately said that is her party’s idea repackaged.

This comes as youth unemployment is at 14.8%, up 12% from last year.

UK Correspondent Kay Oliver told Ryan Bridge that Kendallsaid the scheme her party is designing intends on getting people off benefits, getting them employed and making it easier to find work.

She says the Tories are complaining that Labour has had 14 years to come up with their own plans and they think it is quite rich for them to steal what they see as their own unique ideas.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kay Oliver our UK Europe correspondent. The Tories are accusing
labor there of pinching, stealing their ideas k.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
A new move to get Britain working. The Work and
Pension Secretary in Liz Kendall has told MPs and the
Commons today that they intend to create a new jobs
and career service connecting to work scheme. But her counterpart,
Helen Weightley for the Tories said that basically they've just
turned what was their work well program into their own branding.

(00:30):
So she's saying she is very pleased that they are
making these moves forward, but they've had fourteen years to
come up with their own plans and she think it's
quite rich of them obviously to steal what they see
as their own unique ideas. Now this all comes ryan
as we were saying that a big focus here on
youth unemployment and eighteen to twenty five year olds have

(00:52):
been told they have to earn or learn or lose
their benefits. Now figures show the unemployment at the moment
for young people here stand at fourteen point eight percent,
which is up from twelve percent just last year. That
Liz Kendall obviously highlighting the changes that they're going to
make said that she will be piling more money into

(01:15):
what she sees as a scheme that will basically encourage
and help people to find jobs. She feels that what's
currently around dates back to the nineteen eighties or nineties,
and this is going to get people basically back into
where they should be. And there's also going to be
more money for youth mental health schemes. So it's a

(01:39):
big package that basically they're designing to try to get
people off benefits, get them back to work, and make
it easy to find jobs.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Well, I suppose at least they have the decency to
change the name of the program before they stole it.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, absolutely, very.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Quickly, Russia has expelled a British diplomat, accusing him of espionage.
Do we know exactly what he's done?

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, no, this is the State news agency has reported.
This is the country's FSB security service. They are saying
that the diplomat, whose photo has actually been shown on
TV bulletins, that he's provided false information on his documents
and carrying out espionage. Now, of course, the Foreign Office

(02:23):
here are saying this is not the first time that
Russia has made malicious and baseless accusations against our staff.
They intend to respond in due case in due course.
But interestingly, last week it emerged that the UK obviously
lifted those restrictions on Ukraine, using the British supplied storm

(02:45):
Shadow missiles on targets inside Russia for the first time.
So it's quite interesting that this has happened at this
particular time.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Certainly, thank you very much for that update. That's Kay Oliver.
You can your correspondent just gone to.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
The more from early edition with Ryan Bridge.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
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