Agency workers and minimum service guarantees are a start. But there is more for Ministers to do.
The public will react very badly if they come to see the strikes as essentially political, but the Conservatives won’t want to appear unable to govern.
Voters aren’t used to a world of rising prices and interest rates, and their hearts and minds are up for grabs.
In future, the economy may run into inflation bottlenecks earlier in economic recoveries than before, thus constraining growth.
As in the 1970s, the looming “summer of discontent” from the trade unions may ruin any hope the Government has of avoiding a wage-price spiral.
Lynch says he “can’t see it at the moment. He hasn’t made it clear at all. That is the role of the Labour Party.”
Our experience is that most employers are keeping an open mind about hybrid models of working.
A key economic problem during the 1980s was union power. Now it is weak incentives to move and retrain.
If the unions persist with their threats, we must have the courage to emulate Ronald Reagan’s ultimatum to air traffic control strikers.
Judicial review is clearly more intrusive than it was. But it is the checks and balances which protect us in a liberal democracy.
Conservatives have a proud history of advancing workers rights; it’s time to update our approach for the 21st Century.
I thought it would be useful to pass on some phrases that have fallen into disuse, but might be needed again if the authorities don’t get their act together.
The Department of Education wants to address school disruption by “reducing pressure” on students.
Here’s how we combine climate action and nature regeneration with fairness and levelling up.
It needs to pull the help it has already provided into an account that shows the scale of the adjustment we are going through.