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  • ‘Ladder of opportunity is wobbling’: Retail bosses urge Starmer to ease cost of youth employment

    Retail

    Retail bosses have called on the Prime Minister to set out urgent measures to tackle youth unemployment, warning that the “ladder of opportunity for young people is wobbling”.  A group of supermarket and high street chiefs are set to call on Sir Keir Starmer to safeguard the position of retail as millions of young people’s [...]

    Labour MPs are being warned a “perfect storm” of costs facing the retail sector could see seats lost to Reform UK.
  • CBI: 200,000 more Brits to face unemployment this year as growth crumbles

    Economics

    The UK economy is set for further pain in the months ahead, a top business group has warned, as consumers and businesses across the country suffer the effects of the Iran conflict, surging energy prices and a raft of government tax hikes. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said that around 200,000 more Brits [...]

    People waiting outside a job centre, highlighting unemployment issues and job search challenges in the current economy.
  • Debt-saddled grads ‘risk earning less than minimum wage’ five years after leaving uni

    Education

    For nearly half of all university courses, those in the bottom quarter of the cohort end up earning less than minimum wage five years on from graduating, according to a new report on the outcomes crisis in higher education.  The think tank Policy Exchange has found that rampant grade inflation and an explosion in university [...]

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  • Labour warned not to kill off hybrid jobs millions rely on

    June 7, 2026

    Labour has been warned not to “regulate flexible jobs out of existence” after new polling found two-thirds of part-time workers chose their role specifically because it offered flexibility around childcare or studying. The intervention from the British Retail Consortium (BRC) comes as ministers press ahead with plans to overhaul zero-hours contracts and force employers to [...]

  • Pub bosses warn tax hikes driving youth unemployment crisis

    June 1, 2026

    Pub bosses have warned that Labour tax hikes are driving the youth unemployment crisis, which is pushing the UK towards an “economic catastrophe”.  Several hospitality leaders have called on the government to reverse its increases to employer national insurance contributions (NICs), which pubs say are making it harder for them to hire young people. Last [...]

  • Bank of England’s Bailey: Interest rates hike may not be needed

    May 29, 2026

    The Bank of England may not raise interest rates in response to the Iran war and has already effectively tightened monetary policy by taking the prospect of future rate cuts off the table, governor Andrew Bailey has said. In a speech in Iceland, the central banking chief said that inflation is “likely to go higher” [...]

  • Milburn review: Youth unemployment crisis costs £125bn a year due to ‘broken system’

    May 28, 2026

    The crisis of nearly a million young people who are out of education, employment or training – known as ‘Neets’ – costs the UK economy up to £125bn a year, the Alan Milburn review has found, as both the government and the private sector were blamed for failing to address youth unemployment. An extensive report [...]

  • Number of Neets passes 1m 

    May 28, 2026

    The number of Neets, otherwise young people not in education, employment or work, jumped past 1m in the first three months of 2026, official data has revealed.  The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said that there were 1,012,000 young people between the ages of 16 and 24 out of work in the first three [...]

  • Hollywood Bowl boss: ‘Incredibly painful’ tax hikes make it harder to hire

    May 27, 2026

    The boss of Hollywood Bowl has hit out at Labour’s “incredibly painful” hikes to national insurance and the minimum wage for making it harder to employ workers. Stephen Burns, chief executive of the UK’s largest tenpin bowling operator, told City AM that Labour policy has made it “significantly more expensive to employ somebody than it [...]

  • The Debate: Is Britain’s minimum wage too high?

    May 27, 2026

    Rishi Sunak has confessed minimum wage hikes he oversaw were too high. But is raising wages during a cost of living crisis really so bad?

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