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  • End ‘wild west’ of post-16 training ‘suppressing talent’, Gordon Brown urges

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    End the “wild west” of post-16 technical education which is “suppressing talent” amid the UK’s skills shortage, Gordon Brown has urged Sir Keir Starmer.

    File photo dated 11/03/24 of former prime minister Gordon Brown who has been made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour, for Public and Charitable Services in the UK and Abroad, in the King's Birthday Honours list. Issue date: Friday June 14, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HONOURS Main Brown. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

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