No-one is clamouring for a bonfire of red tape, not business nor unions

Prospect have responded to reports on cutting environmental and health and safety rights today.

Mike Clancy, General Secretary said: 

“The success of the UK economy will come from raising productivity and investment not false pledges to cut red-tape.

“No-one is clamouring for a bonfire of red tape, not business nor unions.

“This an obvious distraction designed to buy off the Prime Minister’s backbench critics.

“The government must focus on tackling the cost-of-living crisis that will see workers facing impossible decisions about what to cut from household budgets this year.

“Previous attempts to cut workers rights helped contribute to many of the problems that levelling up is now trying to solve.”