Political Picture · immigration

Filed by Deacon Rift

Obsessed with exams, devoid of vocational training: there is a total mismatch between schools and life beyond their gatesBlame the schools. Alan Milburn’s report on Neets, published in May, was one of the most damning comments on the welfare state I have read. It described a new generation of a million mostly poor Britons now encouraged to fare worse, not better, than their parents. This means, said Milburn, that “the great British promise” – the advance of generations – is being broken. A sizea