Labour’s new workers’ rights reforms are focused on the wrong thing
A new error
EUAN Blair made a fortune and created hundreds of jobs by ingeniously exploiting one of his own dad Tony’s biggest mistakes. His insight is worth reading.
He seemingly realised the ex-PM’s zeal to get half our school pupils to university was folly.
Because even a top-flight degree doesn’t guarantee them a job, let alone a lucrative and fulfilling career.
Euan’s hugely successful start-up matches young talents with apprenticeships at big employers without the need for three expensive and sometimes pointless years at uni.
And when he now says Labour’s new workers’ rights reforms are focused on the wrong thing, he’s hit the nail on the head again.
Angela Rayner may think it’s vital to let more people work from home, do a four-day week or ban the boss from calling after 6pm.
None of that will matter a jot if the tsunami of AI sweeps away their job and millions more.
This Government, Euan says, is in danger of “fixing the problems of yesterday” while losing sight of tomorrow’s.
The future, he says, rests on reskilling workers for the looming tech revolution.
You can read about it opposite. We hope they do so in No10 too — and take notice.
Rocky patch
WHY did it take Keir Starmer five days to publicly pledge that Gibraltar and the Falklands are safe under him?
We welcome him doing so yesterday. They “are British and will remain British”, he said. Margaret Thatcher could barely have been more adamant.
But why did the PM not say so last Friday when asked about it?
Both territories’ future was thrown into doubt by his Government’s shameful decision to give our Chagos Islands to Mauritius, a country with no legitimate claim, and pay for the privilege.
Why did the PM take so long to put Gibraltar and the Falklands at their ease?
Get it right
BACK in July it seemed unlikely the battered Tories would challenge for power for a decade. Three dismal months for Labour have changed that.
The Government’s polling has collapsed to just one point ahead of the Conservatives. That’s before a tax-raising Budget unlikely to endear it to voters. And before the Tories have even picked Rishi Sunak’s replacement.
That choice now is Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick.
It is vital Britain has a strong, fully united opposition. The prize is a potential election win in five years, as unthinkable as it seemed just weeks ago.
Tory members are choosing not just an opposition leader to scrutinise Starmer but a genuine contender to replace him in Downing Street.
They must get it right.