Member

Wages are stagnant. Living standards and skills are poor compared with our European neighbours’. How many people have recently been shocked to find that the gap with Ireland is as wide as it is? We know that productivity, which we have debated in this House, has languished for quite a long time. Insecure forms of work have been growing. There are negative effects on health outcomes in this country compared with others. Large-scale inequality is really bad news.