The UK lost 279,000 working days to labour disputes in the first six months of 2025 alone. That’s equivalent to just over 1,073 years.
Here’s the full breakdown from the grisly ONS labour market statistics:
A millennium and change lost to strikes. Meanwhile this morning Wes Streeting claimed the “jury is out” over a pay deal with junior doctors, and Birmingham’s bin strike rumbles on and on…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”