By James Price

Having been trailed for months, with ideas mad, bad and/or dangerous all floated up into a cloudy sky of speculation, Labour’s second budget is now less than a week away.

You certainly wouldn’t expect a former Tory Adviser like me to be pleased with whatever the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, says next week.

But the prosperity of the country is obviously much more important than partisan politics, and we should all wish Reeves well. With that in mind, here are some ideas that I would advise Reeves to pursue if I were advising her.

One idea to help business, one for individuals, and one for the nation’s finances as a whole.

To help businesses, she really needs to look again at the Employment Rights Bill. There are a host of damaging elements to it, but the most damaging to swathes of small businesses will be that trade unions are to be allowed full access to any company with 21 or more employees.........

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