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.
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