A damning new report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development shows that more than a third of businesses plan to cut hiring thanks to Labour’s Employment Rights Act. A survey of more than 2,000 businesses found:
Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith said:
“Hiring intentions are down and redundancies are up as the direct result of Rachel Reeves’ taxes and Angela Rayner’s dogmatic red tape employment bill. With unemployment rising, it’s time this Labour cabinet were first in line for their P45s.”
Meanwhile, the unemployment rate is set to hit an 11-year high this year at 5.4%, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Labour isn’t working…
Speaking on the Labour chaos over the last few weeks, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told The Guardian:
“You call it a sh*tshow, I say it’s unforgivable…It does look to people outside that we’re more interested in ourselves and less interested in preventing chaos. […] We’ve not done enough, and this has got to be the moment of reckoning where we say not just what are we here for, but who are we here for?”