Working from home is under attack from the Reform leader Nigel Farage, who claims without evidence that it’s damaging the British economy. To him it’s a wedge issue with elections coming up, writes Rebecca McQuillan, but to millions of people it is a vital benefit worth more than a pay rise

Are people who work from home feckless layabouts? Has working from home gone too far? I don’t know, ask me after my nap.

Kidding, but OK, some of the jokes are true. Working from home has changed work culture. People probably do shower less. They do clean the loo between meetings. They do attend staff meetings in their jogging bottoms. Working from home does look different from office life.

But is that a problem?

Nigel Farage says it is. The Reform leader is terribly worried about home working. He wants “an attitudinal change to hard work rather than work-life balance” before the British economy collapses due to people hanging up washing in their coffee break. It’s quite a sweeping claim, especially coming from someone who spends so little time in his own workplace. In his first year as MP for Clacton he spoke and voted in the House of Commons fewer times than any other party leader, missed key votes and even went on holiday while Parliament was sitting – which is saying something given that Parliament sits for only 35 weeks a year.

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