Labour’s bid to improve workers’ rights will end up costing the young and inexperienced the most, writes Elliot Keck, head of campaigns at the Taxpayers’ Alliance
Well over 2.5m people have now called for another general election on parliament’s official petitions website. They will get their wish, of course. After all, there is no date specified on the petition and, say what you want about Starmer, he is certainly not about to declare a dictatorship.
Let’s assume for a moment that Kemi Badenoch pulls off one of the most spectacular electoral victories in British history. What are the issues she is likely to face? So far she has been cautious in making promises on policy, rightly pointing out that, until she knows the problems she will be facing, and the context in which she will be facing them, why provide specific solutions now?
Facing youth unemployment
Well if there is one problem that she should bet her money on facing, it’s that of persistently high numbers of young people not in work or education. It won’t be for a lack of announcements, press releases or broadcast interviews from the current crop of Labour ministers. Liz Kendall, the work and pensions secretary, has announced a plan to “get Britain working again”, with........