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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 8 May 2025

Debate

Employment Rights Bill

Contribution

Now we are saying in this Bill: let us close that off. Therefore, there will be two more choices for the poor, benighted small business owner: “Well, I can’t afford to hire them under these current rules, so I’ve got the choice of not hiring them at all”—so no economic growth—or, “I’ll find some other way to flexibly slip through this legislation”, which we would not particularly want to happen, would we?

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