Alistair Strathern

Alistair Strathern

Labour — Hitchin

Speaking in the House of Commons on 11 March 2025

Debate

Employment Rights Bill

Contribution

I draw the House’s attention to my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests and my trade union membership. For far too long, our economy has been stuck in a low-growth, low-wage, low-aspiration situation. For far too long, we have allowed some of the best employers and businesses in the country to be undercut by more unscrupulous employers that, as they are unable to compete through competitive advantage or productivity, do so only by levelling down working conditions. That simply cannot be right. We have heard in Committee, in the House and in headlines over many years some heartbreaking examples of the worst scandals that that has enabled. Truthfully, there is not a person in our society who is not losing out as a result of our failure to tackle this issue. Opposition Members have commented on the pace at which the Government are moving on that issue. We would not have to move at such a pace if they had done more.

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