{"id":613553,"date":"2026-05-31T11:05:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613553\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:05:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T11:05:23","slug":"tackling-rise-in-number-of-young-people-not-in-work-or-education-is-national-cause-minister-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/613553\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling rise in number of young people not in work or education is &#8216;national cause&#8217;, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch Sturgeon&#8217;s full interview on today&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 08:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:55 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nicola Sturgeon speaks to Laura Kuenssberg, who is out of shot. Sturgeon is wearing a white top and pink suit\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/caf5863c-d290-47db-8b96-72c21fc76e05.jpg.webp\"  width=\"2539\" height=\"1428\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Welcome to your weekly instalment of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ahead of the programme starting at 09:00, former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has had a sit-down interview with the host, saying she feels as though she&#8217;s &#8220;serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit&#8221; after her estranged husband, Peter Murrell, admitted embezzling \u00a3400,000 from the SNP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The full interview will be broadcast this morning &#8211; and you&#8217;ll be able to watch it live at the top of the page. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c2027k1ev3zo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Laura&#8217;s also written a piece on the sit down, which you can read here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later in the show, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden will take questions, as will shadow home secretary Chris Philp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And on this week&#8217;s panel, we have: Tory MP Jeremy Hunt, Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan and broadcaster Aasmah Mir<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We won&#8217;t be bringing you regular text updates, but you can watch live at the top of the page from 09:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch Sturgeon&#8217;s full interview on today&#8217;s Sunday with Laura Kuenssbergpublished at 08:55 BST 08:55 BST Welcome to your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-613553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}