Recruiters voice concerns over leaked Labour Party Manifesto

I just read your story about recruiters’ responses to the leaking of the Labour manifesto.

I thought it was interesting that the manifesto included a pledge to “stop employers recruiting only from overseas”. In Labour’s manifesto for the 2015 general election (under Ed Miliband), the wording was: “We will ban recruitment agencies from hiring only from overseas.”

2015: emphasis on recruitment agencies. 2017: emphasis on employers. Recruiters will understand this is an important difference.

Of course, it could simply be an issue of mistaken wording, given that the document is a draft. But it also might be deliberately ambiguous, especially as earlier this year, Jeremy Corbyn himself made negative references to ‘Agency Britain’.

Calum Robson, freelance writer

There is nothing in this leaked document that gives the recruitment industry any sign of a prosperous future under a Labour government. Higher personal and company tax will drive away business and talent meaning fewer jobs and therefore produce less tax income. Add that to a huge borrowing programme and you have a recipe for a very damaging few years for the UK.

Labour has once again shown that they are not capable of governing the UK.

Luckily, it would seem that even die hard, traditional Labour supporters can see the madness in this Manifesto and therefore the chances of a Labour government being elected is very slim indeed.

But we do need a strong opposition and in that sense it is a shame to see what the strong far left is doing to the Labour Party. This is being driven by Corbyn and his left wing supporters, and the unions that would like to see Corbyn in charge for obvious reasons. Shame on them.

Phil Harmsworth, director, The Work Shop Recruitment

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