John Harris's Guardian column profiles young UK Neets – Callum Atkinson, who despite strong A-levels made some 600 job applications and got only AI rejections or silence before a Manchester charity, Breakout, helped him into university, and Raihan Ali, twice bereft of work he was good at. Harris says the Neets he met just want a chance, endorses Alan Milburn's warning that the UK's 981,000 Neets risk becoming a lost generation, and reports that Milburn's final report is due imminently.