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Kay Oliver: UK Correspondent on the conflict between the Tories and Labour over unemployment plans · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kay Oliver our UK Europe correspondent. The Tories are accusing
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  Speaker 1: labor there of pinching, stealing their ideas k.
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  Speaker 2: A new move to get Britain working. The Work and
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  Speaker 2: Pension Secretary in Liz Kendall has told MPs and the
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  Speaker 2: Commons today that they intend to create a new jobs
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  Speaker 2: and career service connecting to work scheme. But her counterpart,
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  Speaker 2: Helen Weightley for the Tories said that basically they've just
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  Speaker 2: turned what was their work well program into their own branding.
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  Speaker 2: So she's saying she is very pleased that they are
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  Speaker 2: making these moves forward, but they've had fourteen years to
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  Speaker 2: come up with their own plans and she think it's
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  Speaker 2: quite rich of them obviously to steal what they see
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  Speaker 2: as their own unique ideas. Now this all comes ryan
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  Speaker 2: as we were saying that a big focus here on
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  Speaker 2: youth unemployment and eighteen to twenty five year olds have
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  Speaker 2: been told they have to earn or learn or lose
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  Speaker 2: their benefits. Now figures show the unemployment at the moment
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  Speaker 2: for young people here stand at fourteen point eight percent,
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  Speaker 2: which is up from twelve percent just last year. That
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  Speaker 2: Liz Kendall obviously highlighting the changes that they're going to
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  Speaker 2: make said that she will be piling more money into
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  Speaker 2: what she sees as a scheme that will basically encourage
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  Speaker 2: and help people to find jobs. She feels that what's
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  Speaker 2: currently around dates back to the nineteen eighties or nineties,
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  Speaker 2: and this is going to get people basically back into
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  Speaker 2: where they should be. And there's also going to be
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  Speaker 2: more money for youth mental health schemes. So it's a
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  Speaker 2: big package that basically they're designing to try to get
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  Speaker 2: people off benefits, get them back to work, and make
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  Speaker 2: it easy to find jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I suppose at least they have the decency to
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  Speaker 1: change the name of the program before they stole it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, absolutely, very.
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  Speaker 1: Quickly, Russia has expelled a British diplomat, accusing him of espionage.
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  Speaker 1: Do we know exactly what he's done?
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, this is the State news agency has reported.
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  Speaker 2: This is the country's FSB security service. They are saying
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  Speaker 2: that the diplomat, whose photo has actually been shown on
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  Speaker 2: TV bulletins, that he's provided false information on his documents
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  Speaker 2: and carrying out espionage. Now, of course, the Foreign Office
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  Speaker 2: here are saying this is not the first time that
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  Speaker 2: Russia has made malicious and baseless accusations against our staff.
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  Speaker 2: They intend to respond in due case in due course.
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  Speaker 2: But interestingly, last week it emerged that the UK obviously
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  Speaker 2: lifted those restrictions on Ukraine, using the British supplied storm
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  Speaker 2: Shadow missiles on targets inside Russia for the first time.
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  Speaker 2: So it's quite interesting that this has happened at this
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  Speaker 2: particular time.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly, thank you very much for that update. That's Kay Oliver.
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  Speaker 1: You can your correspondent just gone to.
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