The greatest expansion of workers rights since Clement Attlee? The first step on the road to our own ‘southern European employment crisis’? I have in the last few months heard both.

When it comes to migration there’s no such thing as a pull-factor - at least that’s what Médecins sans frontières has to say.

Published last week, the latest ONS migration figures show that immigration to Britain has topped 1.2 million for the third year in a row - with a net figure of more than 700,000 for 2024. 

Industrial strategy is back. Just weeks ago, the Government published its green paper on Invest 2035: the UK’s modern industrial strategy.