Youth unemployment is now 14%. Read that again. Nearly 1 in 7 young people can’t find work. And Labour call themselves “pro-worker”. If you’re a teenager who wants a job, good luck. Entry-level roles are vanishing. Shops aren’t hiring. Bars are cutting staff. Small firms are freezing recruitment. Why? Because Labour made it more expensive to hire. Higher employer NI. Higher wage costs. More risk for small businesses. So the first jobs to go are the first jobs young people need. No work. No experience. No path up. That’s how ambition dies. You don’t help young people by pricing them out of the labour market. If Britain wants a future, we need to make it easier to hire the young, not harder. Cut hiring taxes for under-25s. Back apprenticeships. Reward firms that train. Because when young people can’t get their first step, the whole country moves backwards.