Thousands of British jobs face being shipped overseas thanks to Rachel Thieves’ budget. Major recruiter boss James Reed warns companies are planning to move “tens of thousands” of roles to cheaper countries like India, thanks to a “triple whammy” of increased National Insurance, higher minimum wage, and stricter union rights alone set to cost businesses nearly £5 billion a year. The first female Chancellor has sent businesses running for the hills…
Meanwhile, Neil Carberry from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation confirmed large firms are eyeing offshoring, warning he’d “talked to many larger firms where the question has been about offshoring.” Deutsche Bank also warned City clients that the Budget could axe 100,000 jobs, through both layoffs and lost opportunities for new roles. Turns out the biggest tax-hiking budget in history doesn’t promote ‘growth’. In fairness, Reeves wouldn’t have picked up these economic lessons in Halifax’s complaints department…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”