Nearly 1 Million Young People Not in Work: Is Britain Facing a "Lost Generation"? | IEA Podcast

Podcast: IEA Podcast · Institute of Economic Affairs

Opublikowano: 2026-09-11

In this Institute of Economic Affairs podcast, host Maeve Halligan is joined by Managing Editor Daniel Freeman and Head of Lifestyle Economics Christopher Snowdon to discuss the new Chancellor’s first major speech as well as its emphasis on fiscal devolution, deregulation and “public control”. They unpack how and why nearly a million young people are now classed as not in education, employment or training, and examine new international test results showing England’s pupils holding steady while Scotland and Wales fall behind. The conversation opens with an assessment of the Chancellor’s speech, questioning whether its talk of de...