The Labour government’s summer internship scheme is blocking the children of full-time trade union officials. A rare policy win from Labour…
Government now restricts the scheme to working class individuals. This is defined by their parent’s profession when the applicant was aged 14, using ONS and Social Mobility Commission classifications…
Parliamentary questions pursued by Tory parliamentarians have clarified what technical class a “trade union official who works for a local authority under 100% facility time” is: “Under the simplified National Statistics Socio-economic classification (NS-SEC) framework, this occupation is classified as analytic class 3: Intermediate occupations.” Unless they’ve worked out a loophole…
This means, for example, that Rayner’s son, Ryan (now 28) couldn’t take advantage of the scheme. When he was 14 Rayner was a Stockport Council trade union pilgrim. Tory shadow Cabinet Office minister Mike Wood said: “What an embarrassing own goal. Labour’s incompetence knows no bounds: they can’t even wage a class war properly.” Quick Andy – do something….
Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked John Healey: “Just finally, I mean Andy Burnham has been very clear he wants Britain back in the European Union in his lifetime. Do you?”
The Chancellor replied: “I’m older than Andy Burnham. I don’t expect to see that.”