Labour love to talk about ‘growth’ – while driving workers into the ground with tax hikes, climate
Labour love to talk about ‘growth’ – while driving workers into the ground with tax hikes, climate
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FOR all his talk about being the son of a toolmaker, Sir Keir Starmer couldn’t tell a screwdriver from a spanner. The bloke hasn’t got a clue how the construction industry works. This week, you heard the government’s big plan—1.5 million homes and even a third runway at Heathrow.
![[Lee Anderson and Richard Tice on a campaign bus.]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/2024-kirkby-ashfield-england-reform-887246976.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
It might sound great, but Labour's policies are driving the very workers we need into the ground. Britain urgently needs more homes, hospitals, schools, and roads. Yet instead of equipping workers with shovels and tools, the PM has handed them pencils and clipboards.
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In Sir Keir’s reckless race to climate targets, the construction industry is drowning in skyrocketing costs and endless red tape. The result? Job losses, delayed projects, and a construction industry crumbling under the weight of its own regulations.
Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves - Labour’s resident maths wizard - thinks hiking employer National Insurance is a great idea. Because nothing screams “economic growth” like strangling family-run businesses. These firms, the backbone of Britain’s construction industry, are being crushed under Labour’s anti-growth agenda.
And the workforce? It’s vanishing faster than new houses are appearing. Over the past five years, UK construction has lost 70,000 workers annually, with the average age of those remaining now over 50. Apprenticeship starts have averaged just 31,000 per year, with nearly half dropping out.
