Category: Unemployment

The year 2019 is coming to a close with an almost mirror image of the end of 2018. In 2018, I entered the year as an Opposition backbencher on Basildon Council, with a Labour-led alliance in power, only for the Conservative Group to regain administration in May and the new Leader of the Council, Cllr…

The most important General Election for a generation The Stakes could hardly be higher…   We are having a General Election. I am assuming this has not escaped anyone’s attention. This is not an election the Conservative Party wanted. We wanted to deliver Brexit, fulfil the mandate of the British people expressed in the 2016…

In light of the current political and media interest in Universal Credit, I thought it would be useful to set out my thoughts on this, and why I support the roll out of University Credit, both from my perspective as a local councillor and as a former civil servant in the Department for Work &…

The sad passing of Nelson Mandela has obviously overshadowed the Autumn Statement delivered by the Chancellor of the Exchequer last week. In his speech, George Osborne confirmed that, thanks to the Government’s long-term economic plan, the British economy is back on track and our burgeoning recovery underway, with growth set to more than double this year… This…

Yesterday’s employment figures are the latest piece of  encouraging news for the British economy. We’ve come a long way since 2010. Labour left Britain  with the biggest budget deficit in our peacetime history – and  during their last three years in power, the number of people in work  fell by 256,000. But thanks to the…

The news that UK unemployment fell by 24,000 between May and July is extremely welcome news and further evidence that the Coalition’s policies are working. Contrary to what some would like you to believe, this rise was driven entirely by growth in full-time jobs. We have now seen 1.4 million new private sector jobs created…