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Proceeding contribution from Lord Young of Norwood Green (Labour) in the House of Lords on Tuesday, 1 November 2011. It occurred during Debate on bills on Education Bill.
I tried to be measured in my words and I do not think that I have been ungracious: I acknowledged the progress that has been made. I do not want to get too much into an argument about the current state of the economy, as we are going to disagree about how it is being handled. On the entitlement question, I changed the date from 2013 to 2015 as an acknowledgement of the difficulties. However, youth unemployment is in a crisis situation, and crisis situations call for crisis measures. That is the point that I am making and I am not going to resile from that. Therefore, I do not think that it is a question of me being ungracious. There is a real difference of approach and—

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Reference

731 c1189 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords chamber
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