So UK unemployment has risen to 5%; the highest level in 4 years, with a dramatic increase in youth unemployment.

Yet the government seems to believe economic salvation lies in LLM-based so-called AI (statistical best-guess vending machines) whose main selling point is enabling companies to do away with the entry level posts where employees used to learn how a business works and the skills to progress.

Is anyone in Westminster capable of joined-up thinking? (rhetorical question...)