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Sense at last on Angela Rayner's bill |
I may have to amend my article written earlier today announcing the death of New Labour (see below). Blairism has made a partial recovery: Keir Starmer has agreed to ditch the plan to give workers protection from unfair dismissal on day one. The government has agreed to a six-month wait for protection, reduced from the current two-year period, a compromise proposed in the House of Lords where peers have been fighting hard against day-one rights, which will discourage employers from taking on people if in doubt. The measure was the centrepiece of Angela Rayner's employment rights bill, and there has long been a tension between her pragmatism and her desire to strike a workerist pose. I wonder if she might have agreed to this compromise if she had still been the minister in charge of the bill, but in any case it is good to see sense prevail. |
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| I have written that Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer have abandoned the principles that are essential to the party's re-election chances |
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| Net immigration was an estimated 204,000 in the most recent year – the lowest annual figure since 2021 |
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What else you need to know today |
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- James Moore: why are pensioners treated as such a special case? It's starting to get silly
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Did Rachel Reeves break her manifesto pledge on tax? |
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The chancellor is using semantics to argue she has not broken her pledge – which will be of little comfort to those whose income tax bill will soar, writes David Maddox... Read more |
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