Jacqui Smith says Labour hopes to ‘make it much more likely’ that smokers will want to give upEducation minister Jacqui Smith has pledged that portraits of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher will remain in No 10, amid reports Keir Starmer had one moved after finding it “unsettling”.Asked if she was ever unsettled by the portrait of the UK’s first female PM, Smith told LBC:There were several times I was unsettled in No 10 but it wasn’t usually by the portraits, I have to say.Keir Starmer, can’t win, can he? A few months ago, people were having a go at him because he said he thought he could learn from the leadership of Margaret Thatcher.We think that flexible working is actually good for productivity. So the four-day week that I know is on the front of quite a lot of newspapers today, what we’re actually talking about there is the type of flexible working that enables you to use compressed hours.So perhaps instead of working eight hours a day for five days, you work 10 hours a day for four days.Well, no, and nor can lots of other people, but that doesn’t mean that those people that can do it shouldn’t have the ability to do it.” Continue reading…
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Author : Amy Sedghi
Publish date : 2024-08-30 09:09:15
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