Angela Rayner, deputy prime minister and working-class conscience of the Labour government, delighted her backbenchers with a fighting speech in the Commons to launch the Employment Rights Bill, the debate on which is continuing as this newsletter goes out. She claimed that "this Labour government, led by working people, for working people, will start to turn the tide" of unfair employment practices. But she denied that she was declaring class war. "This is a pro-business, pro-worker and pro-growth bill, from a pro-business, pro-worker and pro-growth government," she said. Her bravura performance helped wave away the awkward finding of the government's impact assessment, that the bill could cost employers, especially small employers, as much as £5bn a year. Rayner's argument was that any extra costs would be offset by a more secure, happier and more productive workforce. |
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| No 10 forced to clarify that high earners can also be 'working people' |
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| Paul Johnson of the IFS explains that extending the freeze on thresholds, allows pay inflation to drag people into higher tax bands |
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| The King's Fund charity and the British Medical Association say a 4 per cent rise is not enough |
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What else you need to know today |
- Stephen Doughty, the foreign office minister, was summoned to the Commons to answer an urgent question about the odd arrangement for shipping migrants who arrive in the Chagos Islands – before it is handed over to Mauritius – to St Helena, another British overseas territory: he said St Helena would receive £6.65m for agreeing to take them, although no migrants had arrived on the Chagos Islands since 2022
- Wes Streeting's consultation on NHS reform has been hijacked by online jokers suggesting free energy drinks and "mandatory euthanasia"
- I wrote at the weekend that, although Labour should be held to account for breaking its promise not to raise taxes, it is right that taxes should go up
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If not on 'working people', on whom will tax burden fall in the Budget? |
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David Maddox, our political editor, on Rachel Reeves's options for raising money to pay for public services... Read more |
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Tomorrow inside the Westminster bubble |
Our political commentator Andrew Grice on what to look out for |
The public sector finance figures for September, which will set the baseline for next week's Budget, will be published at 7am.
The cabinet will hold its weekly meeting. The Commons will sit at 11.30am for questions on foreign affairs.
A busy day for Shabana Mahmood, the justice secretary. About 1,100 more prisoners are due to be released early in the second wave of her plan to ease jail overcrowding. To prevent such emergency action in future, Mahmood will launch an independent review of sentencing chaired by David Gauke, the former Conservative justice secretary.
Richard Holden, the former chair of the Tory party, will stage a debate in the Westminster Hall mini-chamber on giving "traditional speciality guaranteed status" to pie and mash. More palatable than running his party's campaign at the July election. |
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