In a week when youth unemployment nationally has reached a record 1.016 million, it is  apt that Labour leader Ed Miliband and Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna recently visited Rugby to discuss Labour’s five-point Plan for Growth with students.

Ed revealed that youth unemployment in Rugby has has doubled in the last nine months alone at the West Midlands Labour Conference on the following Saturday.

The coalition government is attempting to attribute their poor record on jobs and growth to the recent Eurozone crisis. However, UK growth started to stall a year ago. Young people are particularly vulnerable at a time like this, and policies such as abolition of the EMA and forcing people to work for longer before retirement make it harder to gain skills and employment.