
Tim Smith: What should we do for the furloughed worker?
The Government has sat on its hands over the National Retraining Scheme. Ministers need to deliver it – with laid-off workers in the fast lane.
Tim Smith works at the tech startup WhiteHat, developing alternatives to university through apprenticeships. He worked as a Special Adviser from 2015 - 2019 for Theresa May in Downing Street, Patrick McLoughlin in the Transport Department, David Davis at DExEU and Jeremy Hunt in the Foreign Office.
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