Lifestyle magazine Cosmopolitan, quoted Sutton Trust research on unpaid internships.

As part of a new youth manifesto, Labour have pledged to ban unpaid internships lasting longer than four weeks.

Miliband said that anyone offered an internship of longer than four weeks must be being paid the minimum wage, tackling head on the issue of work experience only being available to the wealthy.

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With educational charity the Sutton Trust estimating there are around 22,000 unpaid interns in the UK at any one time, with about 31% of graduates on placements not being paid, it’s an issue that needs serious attention.