Independence only way to save young Scots from ‘lost generation’, SNP warn

An estimated 1.01 million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK were neither working nor learning in January-March this year (Image: Philip Toscano/PA Wire)

INDEPENDENCE is "the only way Scotland can escape", the SNP have argued in response to a new report warning of a “lost generation”.

A dossier from former Labour health secretary Alan Milburn warned that an estimated 1.01 million 16 to 24-year-olds in the UK were neither working nor learning in January-March this year, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).