Burnham pledges ‘big changes’ to the way the welfare system works to tackle Neets crisis – UK politics live

Prime minister’s comments come as children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza highlights ‘staggering’ inequalities in young people’s treatment across UK Cooper also claimed the Liberal Democrats were “winning the battle of ideas”. She explained: We are winning, leading and winning the battle of ideas in parliament. We’re the party that has been talking about electoral reform. We’re the party talking about a closer relationship with Europe. We’re the party that has been talking about fixing social care. And guess what? The prime minister has taken up all of those issues. What I would recognise is there is a huge degree of frustration that, at a time when we are the largest third party in our party’s history, that has happened at a time when parliament almost doesn’t matter at all in terms of changing the political weather. It’s all about the algorithms, it’s about social media. That’s where a lot of the conversation is happening. And those algorithms are being designed, are often financed, in a way that rewards extreme positions. Continue reading...