Conversely, a defeat for Livingstone will be a devastating loss for the young Labour leader, Ed Miliband, who is seen as struggling to establish himself in voters' eyes.
Even Gordon Brown, who as a young Labour MP wrote an anti-Thatcher polemic called "where there's greed", was delighted to welcome her on the steps of Number 10 when he became prime minister.
Some politicians worry that such a large, mainly Muslim country would change the whole character of the EU, while others point to the young labour force that Turkey could provide for an ageing Europe.
Yes, long-term unemployment has fallen among the young since Labour took office.
"Much of this decline in the jobless rate is not due to improvements in the labour market, but rather to large numbers of young people dropping out of the labour force altogether due to discouragement, " the ILO says.
Since 2003, the proportion of young Japanese entering the labour force who want to be entrepreneurs has halved, to 14%, while those who seek lifetime employment has nearly doubled, to 57% (see chart 2).
While British viewers have been enjoying the fruits of his labour, the young Welshman has been making his mark further afield in the bright lights of Hollywood.
Improved education and a lower birth rate, he argues, would give India a chance to find enough jobs for the tens of millions of young people coming to the labour market each year.
In any event, to generate new jobs for all the young Saudi men entering the labour force (let alone the few women who make it), the economy would have to grow by some 6% annually.
Mr Cooper, the council's Labour leader, said young people, families and teachers had been treated in a "disgraceful way".
Winding up the day's business in the Commons on 14 September 2010, the Wirral South MP said that young people face a very tough labour market with not enough work opportunities.
Within a few years, however, the labour market, especially for young people, should tighten dramatically.
Scottish Labour spokesman for children and young people Neil Bibby said the survey should act as a "red flag" to the government.
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What's more, the "McGovern Coalition" - the melange of white liberals, college students, young adults, racial minorities, and labour - upon which Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern built his catastrophic 1972 campaign, has now become the majority.
Chairman of English Nature Baroness Young of Old Scone, herself a Labour peer, said the bill "must not become a battleground for wider matters of town versus country, or simply spoiling tactics which jeopardise the bill's passage and risk sinking the first decent wildlife legislation for 20 years".
So a small cohort of young people is easier to absorb in the labour market than a large cohort.
Inevitably, therefore, Japanese firms will have to work harder to attract young people and to bring women into the labour market.
Thanks to this combination of labour mobility and a preference for young workers, a growing proportion of China's new economy is in the hands of people under 30.
The flexibility of the British labour market is also important in attracting young Europeans who just want temporary or short-term employment.
"Labour has written off a generation of young people with one in five now unable to find a job, " she added.
The Labour Party has attacked Conservative plans to allow young people to opt out of the National Insurance system.
He denied Labour claims the plans include nothing to get young people into work or kick start the economy.
For the poorer countries of Melanesia, where bulges in the populations of young people threaten social unrest, the freer movement of labour is more enticing.
Mr Brown has never done anything like this before: he urged Labour to contest the centre ground as a young moderniser, and helped inspire the party's centrist election campaigns in 1997, 2001 and 2005.
It is odd that a Labour government should be introducing a similar scheme for young people.
Margaret Thatcher, who dropped in for a chat with Jimmy Young 14 times, described him as a formidable inquisitor and Labour's Roy Hattersley agrees.
The pilot study which you directed reveals that young Lebanese women are facing very specific obstacles to enter the labour market after their academic studies.
The previous Labour government has said that it wanted 50% of young people to enter university, which had been seen as a controversially high level.
Labour pounced on a sharp rise in the claimant count for young people.
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He jokes that he is considered too young in France, but too old by his British counterparts in the Labour Party, which is led by a 41-year-old.
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