Anyway you slice it this is a dodgy deal

STARMER and Reeves are flogging the UK economy to death.

- Esther McVey

If the economy was a working animal, already on its knees and yet still being piled high with the extra baggage of taxes and regulatory burdens, the RSPCA would have brought a prosecution for cruelty.

In less than a year we have seen business confidence undermined, the country's richest fleeing as confirmed in the Sunday Times' Rich List, unemployment rise by 10 per cent, and in the three months to April, job vacancies have fallen by 5.3 per cent.

It is young Brits who will suffer the most, though, as Labour is now making employing first-time workers too risky and too expensive with a toxic combination of its Employment Rights Bill, an increase in the minimum wage and the rise in National Insurance contributions.