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In an impassioned speech, he said abolishing child poverty was "an investment" because, broadly speaking, "poor kids do badly in school and rich kids do better in school".

Maintenance grants were abolished 10 years ago by the former chancellor George Osborne, who said they had become an "unaffordable" cost to the taxpayer.

She will add: "Just as the last Labour government, with its new deal for young people, abolished long-term youth unemployment I can commit this government to nothing less than the abolition of long-term youth unemployment."

Labour says the policy draws a clear dividing line between the government and Reform UK, which says it would abolish indefinite leave to remain.

A Labour peer has repeated his call to "abolish the Treasury", and says the government should shift its focus to industrial revival to radically reshape the British economy.