Now that April’s tax horror week – with Reeves’ budget taxes coming into force – is starting to set in the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has conducted its latest survey into employer confidence. It tells a familiar story…
The figures:
Those are the lowest employment balance figures outside of the pandemic. CIPD explains the downturn: “From April, employers across the UK have begun to feel the full effect of increases to National Insurance Contributions and the National Living Wage outlined in last year’s budget.” Plus: here comes the Employment Rights Bill…
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.