Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the pledge during a speech delivered in Dudley earlier today (30 July) in which he outlined plans to help the economy “bounce forward” in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.
The initiative would help young people maintain the skills and confidence they needed to find the job that was right for them, he said.
“I am conscious as I say all this that it sounds like a prodigious amount of government intervention.
“It sounds like a New Deal and all I can say is that if so, then that is how it is meant to sound because that is what the times demand,” Johnson said.
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