A Tory Shadow Minister has endorsed proposals to freeze the minimum wage for five years. Policy crystallising in this area…
The National Living Wage is rising faster than average private sector pay, which is causing wage compression across the economy where junior and senior positions are paid increasingly similar amounts. This begins ruins the motivation, retention, and progression structure in firms…
A new report from the Prosperity Institute recommends:
Badenoch has repeatedly attacked the minimum wage but Tory policy has not been formally set on the matter. Lord Sharpe of Epsom, Shadow Minister for
Business and Trade, said of the report:
“With almost 1 million young people not in education, employment or training this report is timely and its recommendations very sound. The Government should adopt them in full.”
Scrap the Living Wage altogether…
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”.