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Miliband to focus on apprentices
Labour leader Ed Miliband will today use his conference speech in Manchester to call on businesses to offer more apprenticeships and vocational training for the “forgotten 50 per cent” of youngsters who do not go to university. He is expected to demand that firms with government contracts provide apprenticeships, as well as touching on the theme of shareholder activism and discouraging “a short-term business culture”.