SHADOW Business Secretary Andrew Griffith has said that the government is overly focussed on supporting people working in the public sector and benefits claimants.
He told GB News: “I think it’s becoming clear day by day. I mean, we’ve had this terrible run into this Budget. It’s depressed every single market, the housing market, the jobs market, business confidence.
“But it’s becoming very clear now we’ve got this huge gulf between those that work hard, those that try and save for their retirement, pensioners, small businesses, farmers, people go get up and go to work early every day, and the people that this Labour government seems to want to support, which is the public sector and those on welfare, a very clear divide.
“Conservatives are very different. We’re talking today about the CBI. We’re talking about how we can get down businesses taxes, their energy bills, cut red tape, and have a government that’s properly on the side of the enterprising people that make this country so great, not those that are just taking from everybody else.”
Asked about the government’s Employment Rights Bill, he said: “Well, Labour are passing this 330-page – just imagine how thick that is, Eamonn, and it will, exactly, as you say, damage those that want to do flexible work, casual work, those that juggle work around other responsibilities, whether it’s studying or caring.
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“It’s a completely naive, dogmatic approach. Many, many people like to organise their own working lives in the way that suits them best, and alongside that measure, there’s so many other measures, really. This is a bill that was written by the trade unions. It’s a back to the 1970s bill.
“Unemployment has risen every month of this government, and very soon, every family in this country is going to know a son, daughter, niece or nephew who cannot get work because of this government, because of their approach to hiking red tape and restricting employers from taking a chance on young people, the sort of chance I’m sure you and I had.
“My first job was making donuts in Tesco. But if you couldn’t get that sort of flexible work, then who knows what would have happened?”
