From the FT yesterday:

Labour rows back on workers’ rights to blunt Tory ‘anti-business’ claims

Labour has diluted its 2021 pledge to create a single status of “worker” for all but the genuinely self-employed, regardless of sector, wage or contract type. The policy was aimed at guaranteeing “basic rights and protections” for all workers, including those in the gig economy.

Instead of introducing the policy immediately, Labour has agreed it would consult on the proposal in government, considering how “a simpler framework” that differentiates between workers and the genuinely self-employed “could properly capture the breadth of employment relationships in the UK” and ensure workers can still “benefit from flexible working where they choose to do so”.

Labour also clarified that its previously announced plans to introduce “basic individual rights from day one for all workers”, including sick pay, parental leave and protection against unfair dismissal, will “not prevent . . . probationary periods with fair and transparent rules and processes.”

https://archive.ph/96it5#selection-2271.36-2281.383

Only days after Depute UK Leader Angela Starmer told Anas Sarwar that Labour were u-turning again, this time on their promise to devolve workers rights to Scotland, and intending to keep control in London, her leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has made it clear that they intend to betray that promise to workers.

Here’s Rayner firmly telling a clearly-upset Sarwar, like a Modern Studies teacher (Isn’t that what the candidate is?) telling a sixth-former he didn’t get the A pass he needed for Glasgow University and that it has nothing to do with her spending all her ‘spare time’ running every street in the city and fighting to be the Labour candidate.

Will the Rutherglen candidate be allowed to fall off Hardie, left-veering and caring of others, and Starmer, right-veering, selfish and big-bollocked, or will BBC Scotland insist there’s just one horse there?