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Let's be honest, the ever-rising minimum wage is hurting employment

3 weeks ago | cityam.com | Matthew Lesh |Anna Moloney

Saturday 19 April 2025 6:00 am | Updated: Thursday 17 April 2025 4:28 pm Let’s be honest, the ever-rising minimum wage is hurting employment (Photo illustration by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) Rising from £3.60 to £12.21 in just 26 years, the ever-rising national minimum wage isn’t actually helping workers, writes Matthew Lesh At first glance, this week’s Office for National Statistics labour market data appears unremarkable. Unemployment, employment and inactivity have all remained...
Five ways Boris Johnson can reboot and rebalance the economy

Jan 13, 2025 | capx.co | Matthew Lesh

Gas Street Basin, Birmingham; Photo: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images Gas Street Basin, Birmingham; Photo: Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images From abolishing the Factory Tax to investing in transport, there's plenty the Government should do The Conservatives' economic policies should be aimed squarely at the Midlands and the North Fixing the housing crisis and reforming the tax system to incentivise investment must be priorities A political leader who has just secured a large...
Whisper it, but Labour might just have saved the NHS

Jan 7, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Lesh

Yesterday, an event unfolded that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. A self-identifying socialist prime minister stood before a press conference and unveiled plans for a new wave of private sector involvement and patient choice in the National Health Service. In the not-so-distant past, such a declaration would have provoked an uproar, with critics decrying it as a betrayal of the NHS’s founding principles. Yet this time, it passed with barely a murmur of dissent.
Our polling shows hope of 'change' has turned to despair for Labour

Jan 7, 2025 | cityam.com | Matthew Lesh

Tuesday 07 January 2025 5:44 am | Updated: Monday 06 January 2025 5:47 pm Our polling shows hope of ‘change’ has turned to despair for Labour Business leaders are most likely to say they are “concerned” or “apprehensive” about the Labour government’s first Budget, a poll has found.
Labour now has the same talking points as the Tories, but fewer ideas

Dec 12, 2024 | cityam.com | Matthew Lesh

| Labour came into office mocking Tory complains about the civil service, but are now coming up against the reality of an unwieldy bureaucracy unresponsive to their demands, says Matthew Lesh“Dominic Cummings was right“ is not a phrase you would expect to hear from a senior Labour official.
Louise Haigh’s successor will need a radical change of direction

Nov 29, 2024 | msn.com | Matthew Lesh

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Good riddance Louise Haigh. Now let’s fix our decrepit railways

Nov 29, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Lesh

Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary in a blazing scandal. It has come to light that she was convicted of fraud over a missing work phone a decade ago – a device she reported to police as stolen in a mugging only to be turned on in her presence later. Haigh’s former employer, Aviva, reportedly told police about several cases of mysterious disappearances of Haigh’s work devices.
Let’s be honest… public health grinches want to steal Christmas

Nov 28, 2024 | msn.com | Matthew Lesh

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Let's be honest... public health grinches want to steal Christmas

Nov 28, 2024 | cityam.com | Matthew Lesh

Thursday 28 November 2024 5:52 am | Updated: Wednesday 27 November 2024 1:02 pm Let’s be honest… public health grinches want to steal Christmas Aldi has emerged on top after finance experts uncovered the cheapest supermarket in the UK to purchase your Christmas dinner in 2023.
Businesses are learning the hard way there's no point cosying up to socialists

Nov 15, 2024 | telegraph.co.uk | Matthew Lesh

Reeves initially promised to be more pro-business than Tony Blair Credit: Danny Lawson/PA Before the election, Chancellor Rachel Reeves went on a “smoked salmon offensive” to woo business leaders. Few would envy early mornings in soulless hotel ballrooms munching on tasteless scrambled eggs after very little sleep. But after the tumultuous Corbyn era, Reeves needed to somehow turn around the party’s reputation for economic competence. Reeves promised to be more pro-business than Tony Blair...