• Establish a new ‘starting-out’ wage – a minimum wage set at 80 per cent of the adult minimum wage. This will be available for 16-to 19-year-olds who meet certain criteria, and are starting work with a new employer, in recognised industry training, or have just come off a benefit. The starting-out wage will help our youngest and most inexperienced workers get a foot on the employment ladder and learn work skills.
sceptical towards state expenditure on education, for example in favour of study fees or private schools