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Ageeed, Andy. Perhaps a more detailed breakdown of those not working is required - age, reason for not working, etc? Perhaps also statistics on what jobs immigrants are doing - ok, many work in health and care services, hospitality, etc; however, I know also there are US citizens working in technical and management jobs in the UK subsidiaries of US companies such as Google, Microsoft, etc. They, and their partners, may, of course, be in the UK on a temporary basis - although I can think of some who've been in the UK for several years, but they do speak pretty good English - or a version of it! And are some of these immigrants students funding our higher education system?I would agree that there should be better training to meet current employment requirements. We should also perhaps "educate to learn" so people can cope with a rapid changing workenvironment. And, Mr Sunak is correct when he says we need better maths education; I can remember network engineers struggling with classless inter-domain routing and its IP subnet masking requirements because they struggled to "think binary" :-) But training is only part of the issue; people have to have a personality fit for the job: I doubt I'd have the patience to work in a care home, other's wouldn't like to grapple with binary, octal and hexadecimal arithmetic while some pedantic people make great IT testers; and, an interesting point is: given all these vacancies why is it so difficult for skilled, experienced people in their 50s who are made redundant to find new employment?

Michael Ixer ● 396d

Mr RoseI personally see no major differences in economic policy as both support a free market capitalist economy.May be a few tweaks in tax rates but nothing that would frighten the horses.Facing the issue of the number of people not working and claiming benefits (often for 'mental health issues') will be avoided as the only way to get people to work is to have a benefits system where not working is not a viable option for maintaining a reasonable lifestyle.I think the bigger differences will be in social and foreign policy as I posted earlier.1) Immigration and 'the boat people' where most want it curbed or at least better managed whilst many in Labour are ambivalent if not seeming in favour of open borders.2) Gender and self-identification.Starmer reckons 0.1 % of women have a penis (no offence ladies) and Labour's policy is to allow one non-specialist GP to sign off on male transexuals' desire to be considered female and hence use female designated spaces.3) Israel.Don't forget Starmer was once a great supporter of Jeremy Corbyn and other quasi-antisemites until he himself was elected leader.The pro-Palestinian faction in the Party is huge though I have never seen described what the aspirations of Palestinians actually are that Labour supports.And some Labour MPs defied the whip to support the SNP motion that seemed to equate the actions of Israel and Arab Palestinians in the Gaza region.A goodly number certainly of the supporters I am sure would be quite happy for Israel not to exist and I am not certain whether Starmer would have the numbers in Parliament or the Party to gainsay them.

John Hawkes ● 397d