REC on Sir Keir Starmer resignation: ‘Only private sector growth can address the fiscal challenges the government faces’

Responding to the resignation of Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister, the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) Chief Executive Neil Carberry said:

“More change in Whitehall could be a challenge to the stability firms need, but business are adept at getting on with it. Whoever is Prime Minister, one thing will remain true though: only private sector growth can address the fiscal challenges the government faces and put money in the pockets of people across the country. What firms really need is a government that will back them to deliver growth, rather than making trading more difficult by heaping up ever more regulatory and taxation costs. That means making sure that government works with business to achieve its aims, rather than imposing solutions that sound good to Westminster think-tanks and more radical union leaders, but do not help ordinary workers and companies who are trying to drive the country forward. Pragmatism on the unworkable approach to guaranteed hours set out by the Employment Rights Act would be a good first step in working out whether any new Prime Minister really has growth and prosperity at the heart of their plan.”