Alan Milburn said the prime minister-in-waiting knows that changing the system is 'absolutely necessary' to help the million young people currently out of work or education.

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Former health secretary Alan Milburn suggested he and the incoming prime minister have already ‘discussed privately’ the issue of welfare reform