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…
Jobs
Rachel Reeves speech: A One Nation Approach to Social Security – Taking the Next Steps
Speak to IPPR, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Rachel Reeves said: I’d like to thank…
Why Labour is the party of work
Today I’m setting out how reforms to earn our way out of the cost-of-living crisis and social security…
We don’t lack grit. We lack jobs
David Cameron’s policy on unemployment is based on the 1.6% of people in workless households who have never…
This government needs to do something Tories aren’t good at – find new jobs for shipbuilders
“It’s just a rumour that was spread around town, by the women and children, soon we’ll be shipbuilding.”…
A National Living Wage would create jobs
Raising the national minimum wage to the Living Wage would lead to more jobs being created in the…
Lifting boats and raising pay
It’s been a good week for the political debate about living standards and the cost of living crisis.…
Labour should be congratulating Osborne today, not attacking him
Today’s GDP growth of 0.6% (so widely predicted over the weekend it’s hard not to believe it was…
Ed Balls’ critique of Osbornomics is right – but is it too late?
There has been some furious and not particularly subtle briefing over the past week, suggesting that growth for…
We are the party of work. Labour – the clue is in the name
Last week the facts were laid out for all to see. Across the piece this Conservative led-Government has…
