For example, the prime minister suggested it was unfair that an unemployed school leaver can claim housing benefit whereas one who finds work or who goes on to university is unable to claim housing benefit.

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On education, he said he wanted the system to be "like the pushiest, most sharp-elbowed, ambitious parent there is" and he wanted it to "be the norm" for every school leaver to start an apprenticeship or go to university.

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