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Sturgeon in pitch for youth vote

Press Association – 

Independence will give young people more opportunities at home in Scotland, according to the Deputy First Minister.

Nicola Sturgeon will be on the campaign trail in Glasgow today where she will be presented with a "youth declaration" from pro-independence group Generation Yes.

Ms Sturgeon, who will be joined by Scottish boyband Rewind outside the Royal Concert Halls in Buchanan Street, said too many young Scots were forced to leave the country for work.

Speaking ahead of the visit she said: "Almost everyone in Scotland will know of friends or family who have had to leave in order to get work or further their career. On average, every year nearly 40,000 people aged 16-34 leave.

"It's great that so many people have opportunities outside Scotland and that will continue with a Yes vote but we need to do more to provide opportunities here at home.

"That means an economic policy with full-job creating powers tailored to Scotland's rather than a Westminster policy which the evidence shows favours investment and jobs in London."

Ms Sturgeon set out five opportunities for young people after a Yes vote, including a guarantee of free higher education and the extension of voting rights to all 16 and 17-year-olds.

Incentives to attract businesses to Scotland would create more and better jobs, while taxes from young people helped into work by the Modern Apprentices programme could be reinvested to give opportunities to others, she said.

A Youth Guarantee would also establish the opportunity of education, training or employment as a constitutional right for everyone up to the age of 24, Ms Sturgeon said.

She added: " A Yes vote is the opportunity of a lifetime for young people. We're better off with Scotland's future in Scotland's hands."


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