Burnham pledges ‘big changes’ to the way the welfare system works to tackle Neets crisis – UK politics live

Prime minister’s comments come as children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza highlights ‘staggering’ inequalities in young people’s treatment across UK When pressed again on concerns within the party about Ed Davey’s leadership, Daisy Cooper , the deputy party leader, admitted that there was “a huge degree of frustration” in the party about the amount of media coverage it gets. But she claimed that this was because social media favours extremists. She said: What I would recognise is there is a huge degree of frustration that, at a time when we are the largest third party in our party’s history, that has happened at a time when parliament almost doesn’t matter at all in terms of changing the political weather. It’s all about the algorithms, it’s about social media. That’s where a lot of the conversation is happening. And those algorithms are being designed, are often financed, in a way that rewards extreme positions. For as long as we have first past the post, the national polls do not translate into winning seats. And we have proven that under Ed Davey’s leadership we can transfer votes into seats like no other political party. And for as long as we have first past the post that has to remain the goal. Continue reading...