70 minutes ago Businesses warn of job losses threat as Starmer hopes to get 2m back into work

Tensions between business leaders and the Labour government continue to grow as Starmer puts hopes in company bosses to employ 2 million more people

Events

3 hours ago Welfare and NHS reform key to handing Keir Starmer a second term and driving economic growth

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says moving people from welfare to work is central to the Prime Minister's economic case.

Economics

4 hours ago Government sets out plans to tackle economic inactivity caused by ill health

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall set out her plan in the Commons.

Politics

5 hours ago Don't just work from home, look for work from home! Labour's Liz Kendall unveils plan to give unemployed 'a Jobcentre in your pocket' using AI and smartphones to cure sicknote Britain

Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall said visiting the employment offices too often felt like 'you're back in the 80s or 90s' as she unveiled government plans to get Brits back to work.

Society

9 hours ago UK politics live: Minister says some benefit claimants ‘stealing from the state’ as Labour unveils crackdown

Government set to announce measures to get more than two million Britons back into work

Politics

11 hours ago UK politics latest: Labour to unveil plans to slash spiralling benefits bill and get millions back into work

Government set to announce measures to get more than two million Britons back into work

Economics

18 hours ago Can Keir Starmer REALLY get sicknote Britain back to work? Economic inactivity due to ill health has soared 7

Worklessness due to long-term sickness has risen seven-fold in parts of the country since Covid, according to startling figures laying bare the crisis Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to tackle.

Economics

18 hours ago Labour unveils plan to reduce benefits bill as Starmer declares system ‘simply isn’t working’

Announcement comes after the PM pledged to tackle UK’s ‘bulging benefits bill’

Economics

43 hours ago Sick note Britain! Business chiefs urge Labour to end UK's worklessness crisis

Work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall said that claimants had a 'responsibility' to take a job or engage with training programmes in return for their benefits.

Economics