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Long-term unemployed youths will be guaranteed paid work and could face being stripped of benefits if they refuse to take it up, Rachel Reeves will announce.

In her Labour conference speech, the Chancellor will make the case for a society founded on “contribution” as she unveils plans for a “youth guarantee” aimed at driving down unemployment.

She will also set out plans to fund libraries in all English primary schools and pledge measures to support British steelmaking and shipbuilding.

And she will promise a “hit squad” of investigators will target Covid fraudsters to hit them with fines of up to 100% of the value of the money they swindled from the taxpayer.

The Chancellor is expected to use her speech in Liverpool to say that British society must be built on the principles of doing “our duty for each other” and “hard work matched by fair reward”.