Labour believes problems are best solved by pulling levers in Whitehall. Conservatives should recognise that lasting change is built through strong local and regional leadership, working together to reflect the realities of place.
A minimum wage can work perfectly well in markets – but for it to work we need to actually use markets. A real pay disparity that anyone can see is plainly unsustainable.
Its long-term impact on our society at large dwarfs the cultural wars, the pronoun skirmishes, the speculation over Trump’s purchase of Greenland, or Putin’s territorial ambitions.
A comprehensive Labour Market strategy should sit at the centre of our offer to working Britain. Becoming the vehicle for a broad coalition of working people from engineers and builders to agricultural workers and carers will give the Conservatives purpose.
Jenrick thinks things are so bad that we need a “revolution” but Reform have given little indication of what an economic revolution might look like. Reform cannot be trusted with the public finances. The Conservatives should carry on with the hard work of showing they can be
The challenge is not that Britain’s young people are unwilling to work, but that too many have been allowed to believe they cannot.
I remind the reader that aspiration applies to all workers. We need an economy where as many people work full time to ensure that the market economy works for everybody.
It has abandoned graduates and young people in an attempt to shore up its splintering parliamentary party. This presents the Conservative Party.
The benefits system, created with the best of intentions, is no longer working. As a result, tens of thousands of people are receiving benefits they are not entitled to and thousands are earning money advising people on how to exploit the system.
The employment rate was higher for mothers than either women or men without dependent children and has been since 2017. Working mothers still need better options to satisfy childcare requirements
For SMEs already wrestling with taxes, energy costs and regulation, it risks becoming yet another straw on the camel’s back.
Hatfield is different. Unlike too many of our prisons, around 85 per cent of ex-offenders, remaining in their jobs after release, with the support of a charity it is a place where they can genuinely begin to rebuild their life, given the right incentives and the right support.
The poor man who can afford his basic needs shouldn’t take £200 out of a rich man’s wallet to finance his Sky sports subscriptions and takeaways.
When your own ideological allies are pleading with you to stop, it should be a moment for reflection.
The real injustice today is not that the old consensus around higher education and future employment is being questioned. It is that a generation is living with its consequences long after the whole system stopped working for them.