Julia Lopez

My right hon. Friend tells us a terrible story that is unfortunately being played out in constituencies across this country. People are having their buffer eroded and then they are simply not able to

The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to point that out. It is inconceivable that the Government would not have been told about the impact that this policy was likely to have. Labour likes to point o

My hon. Friend is absolutely right to highlight that challenge in seasonal working, which creates an extra burden for employers, many of whom have to work to fill the shifts they would otherwise have

That was a policy that was put forward. My right hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Northallerton (Rishi Sunak) decided to change it because the economy was in a challenging state after the pande

It is absolutely part of the problem. Labour did not think that through, and I have an example of that same phenomenon with the hospice in my constituency, as well as with a number of public sector or

I agree with what my right hon. Friend says. That characterisation of employers is why Labour gets itself into such problems in the first place. He talks about the issues relating to national insuranc