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William Watson: A couple of things we could learn from the British

They're taking a more balanced view of the labour market and when parliamentary seats fall vacant they call their byelections very fast

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Black-clad and tie-less like Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he met with this week, new British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he’s dropping former prime minister Tony Blair’s target of getting half of young Brits to attend university. And he wants to destigmatize the trades. Good for him! All hard, honest work should be honoured.

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