This week has been described by some as Keir Starmer’s ‘legacy week’. The ban on social media and the G7 summit in Evian were meant to show what this Prime Minister has been able to achieve at home and abroad for the safety of us all.

No. 10 disputes that it is anything about legacy, of course, and says it actually demonstrates a Prime Minister who puts country over party and is determined to fight on. Whatever the truth, figures just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) cement what Starmer should really be remembered for.

New recruits in British firms hit their lowest level in five years, while 138,000 jobs disappeared from payrolls in the year to April and 53,000 in a single month. It is not just........

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