Sir Keir Starmer sets out a plan to "fire up" the training of more British workers as he insists he will not be content to pull the "easy lever" of overseas labour. The prime minister says young people in the UK have been "let down" by a lack of opportunity and a broken skills system. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00All too often, young people in our country have been let down,
00:04not given access to the right opportunities or training in their community.
00:10And that's created an over-reliance in our economy on higher and higher levels of migration.
00:18Migration is part of our national story, and it always has been, always will be.
00:26And yet, if you stand back, as a system, it cannot be right that some people don't get to feel
00:35the pride of making a contribution, the dignity of work, just because we can't find a way
00:43of creating a coherent skills system. That can't be right.
00:47So I have to say that we won't be content just to pull the easy lever of importing skills.
00:55We're turning the page on that. But I want to be clear as well, we are going to make sure
01:03that there are highly motivated, ambitious, talented young people who want to work in
01:08your business. That is our long-term ambition. We're going to fire up the training of more UK
01:16workers and match people's aspirations, which I know are there, with more opportunity.