Employment Hero data suggests that Rachel Reeves’ taxes are forcing firms to cut wages. (Photo by Peter Cziborra – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

If the Chancellor wishes to get Brits back to work, she should offer National Insurance cuts for those hiring the long unemployed, writes Georgiana Bristol

People want to work. In the heat of the debate around the grievous state of worklessness in the UK, this simple fact often gets lost. To reconcile this issue, I’d like to recommend that National Insurance (NI) hikes are reduced for businesses who take people on who have been out of work for more than a year.

If reading the news was to be believed, either we’ve lost a generation to grifters glued to their phones, or we are an unkind nation not supporting our most vulnerable, unable to work.
In my role as CEO of the Jobs Foundation, I know, having visited many businesses across the country who run great training schemes to support people caught in worklessness and poverty into work,........

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