"We are facing an economic disaster and a moral failure"

In an opinion piece for The Times, Burnham argued that the government should invest in helping young Britons succeed rather than paying for failures through the welfare system, the BBC reports. "Welfare should become a last-resort safety net, not the starting point," Burnham wrote in an article published in this morning’s edition of The Times. The government is expected to announce plans later this week to provide young people with thousands of job opportunities.