No wonder government ministers in recent weeks have started nodding along with fears that AI will take our jobs, with investment minister Lord Stockwood even suggesting that the government has discussed the idea of a universal basic income to provide for people thrown out of work by the technology. God forbid that voters should start to appreciate the real reasons why an expanding jobs market has been thrown into reverse under the Labour government.

Labour has destroyed one of the big advantages that the UK had over many of its immediate European neighbours: a flexible jobs market

Labour has destroyed one of the big advantages that the UK had over many of its immediate European neighbours: a flexible jobs market

No, it isn’t AI that is to blame for the loss of 171,000 payrolled jobs in the year to November. Nor is AI the reason why 37 per cent of the 2,000 employers surveyed by the Chartered........

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