Youngsters should busk for train fare to job interviews

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Conservative MP Damian Collins isn't going to win any plaudits for being in touch with real people today, after comments at a Channel 4 Battlefront event, where he seemed suggest young people ought to work for less than the minimum wage, and busk to raise the money to job hunt.

So did he really say this, and is the government now hopelessly out of touch?
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