Over the weekend, you may have seen headlines about Labour paving the way for a four-day week. Angela Rayner reassured the British public that it would be “no threat to the economy”, but you have to wonder if everyone feels the same way. Coincidentally (a bit too coincidentally, in terms of timing) Sadiq Khan has just offered Tube drivers a four-day week in return for them calling off industrial action scheduled for November 7th and November 12th.
As with so many of Labour’s proposed policies – such as the Assisted Dying Bill and farmers’ inheritance tax hike – they always have a random feel to them, as though sprung upon the electorate at a second’s notice. Before you have time to ask “who, what, where, why?”, Kim Leadbeater or whoever next has the first draft of her bill ready.
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