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Can Starmer’s jobs push get Britain back to work?

27 November 2024

12:31 AM

27 November 2024

12:31 AM

The UK isn’t working. That’s the official view of the government as Keir Starmer launches his latest effort to get Britons back into work. A series of benefit changes intend to tackle the fact that Britain is the only major economy where the employment rate has fallen over the past five years, largely because more people are out of work due to long-term ill health.

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