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There are more benefits to full employment than you might think.
Our railways sell tickets as if everyone has a 9-to-5 job and works 5 days a week.
Householders are still relying on the most expensive types of loan, new figures suggest.
In the last two years, the number in employment in London has gone up by 312,000 – much higher than any other region.
Over-emphasising the Britishness of certain universal values risks stoking xenophobia.
Unemployment decreased by 161,000 in the three months to April 2014 to 2.6 million, with the unemployment rate now at 6.6 per cent, today’s labour market statistics reveal.
It isn’t enough to promise only to ‘listen’ to working class concerns.
74 per cent do not want restrictions put on the free movement of labour within the EU.
However well-meaning attempts by non-Muslims to define Islam are, they are ultimately counter-productive.
As Michael Gove originally wrote, there is something rather unBritish about seeking to define British values.
