In the battle for Rutherglen and Hamilton West, Keir Starmer has said that the party will smash the ‘class ceiling’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
of the party coming to power: “the biggest levelling up of workers’ rights in decades”. And so it is.
The issue that blew up last week concerned whether everyone would get rights from day one in a new job. Rayner said Labour would be “ending qualifying periods for basic rights, which currently leave working people waiting up to two years for basic protections”, with “stronger protections against unfair dismissal”.
Is it because of a clumsy mishandling of messaging that Labour’s two most radical policies of recent years have now been tarred as “retreats”? Or is it Labour’s own ambivalence on whether to present them as radical or moderate? The £28bn pledged for Labour’s green investments – for jobs in clean energy, battery factories and home insulation – is enormous and popular.
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