Labour’s compulsory skills training for the unemployed – would it work?
Labour’s big announcement on welfare today is the proposed introduction of new skills courses in English and maths for people…
Employment
Don’t be fooled by Osborne’s employment rhetoric – it’s a red herring
The figures used by George Osborne in today’s Autumn Statement are nothing more than a confidence trick. The…
Zero hours: Miliband proposes changes effectively outlawing “kind of exploitation”
Following weekend briefing of Ed Miliband’s speech to the TUC, today more details have emerged of what the…
Which of these basic rights does David Cameron hate so much?
I’ve been meaning to write a piece over the last week on what Cameron really means when he…
Making apprenticeships happen
Tony Blair famously spoke of his focus on ‘education, education, education’. For the Tory-led Government, in the face…
