Yes, although unemployment had been rising for a long while before then to be fair.

Arguably hiking corporation tax rather than employer NI made more sense (tax profits not employment)

I don't think it is particularly, but left is far from power at this point and is understandably campaigning for policies that don't otherwise get a hearing, i.e. wealth taxes, rent controls, public ownership, etc.

Sneery tone aside, it's not either/or. The UK does have high levels of inequality by European standards, massive wealth disparities and a squeezed working class.

And some of us have been thinking of ways of raising substantial taxes while ameliorating cost of living e.g inews.co.uk/opinion/lowe...

Also MPs will be conscious that Streeting likely to lose his seat at next election ... only scraped in this time.

But of course Stewart Lee put it better ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y38p...

Read my full column in @theipaper.com at: inews.co.uk/opinion/rach...

Is this the Government conceding that Palestine Action are not terrorists?

Pay your staff properly then