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Prof Prem Sikka: A failure to tackle skills shortages is threatening the post-Covid economic recovery

Prem Sikka
11 June, 2021

The government is hoping to alleviate skills shortages by recruiting individuals from all over the world. A key part of this is the recognition of foreign qualifications.

Boris Johnson speaking at a desk

Scientists urge government to delay June 21 reopening because of now ‘dominant Indian variant’

Basit Mahmood
4 June, 2021

‘Right now, we do not have control over this variant and its growth in England and apparently not in Scotland either’

boris johnson speaks at event

Why levelling-up is just another Tory hoax

Prem Sikka
14 May, 2021

‘Levelling-up’ has been used as a slogan by Boris Johnson’s government to implement its far-right policies.

Come on, Keir: Where is Labour’s economic plan when we need it?

Liam Barrett
6 January, 2021

Almost no one wants the economy to return to how it was pre-pandemic. What’s Keir Starmer’s vision?

‘All businesses should have a mission’: What are BCorps?

Lucy Skoulding
25 November, 2020

The new movement of businesses balancing purpose with profit. Can they help tilt the balance in favour of communities?

“F… business”: How the Tories are failing our manufacturing communities in the pandemic

Matt Western
30 September, 2020

The skills of our automotive workers will be key to a green recovery – but the government is letting the sector flounder.

The Bank of England Governor just backed up the Left’s furlough calls

Josiah Mortimer
22 September, 2020

Ministers must do everything they can to support jobs, says Andrew Bailey, as the income support scheme comes to an abrupt end.

Prem Sikka: The Tories are pushing our already-battered economy to the brink

Prem Sikka
14 August, 2020

Our economy was in a weak position before Covid. Now mismanagement is steering us towards a Great Depression.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak

The avalanche of job losses has begun. Only a Basic Income can protect us

Jonathan Bartley
8 July, 2020

Jonathan Bartley: Here’s how the Chancellor can protect Britain from an economic catastrophe.

In the ruins of the Covid pandemic, we need Big Ideas more than ever

Gill Cookson
17 June, 2020

It’s time to be radical – and say ‘never again’ like we mean it.

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