Stepping up

By Liam Byrne MP Ask an expert about the rise of the robots and you hear lots of reassuring noises. New technology, they say, always creates lots more jobs than it destroys. In the long run. That ‘long run’ is why you get a different answer if you ask, not experts, but voters. In fact, …

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Emotional connection

By Harry Farmer Pick up the comment section of any paper from the past few years, and there’s a pretty good chance that someone will be fretting about the coming end of work. As data-powered artificial intelligence (AI) becomes steadily more impressive (and its applications steadily more practical), a cottage industry has sprung up producing …

Embracing the changing world of work

By Jack Dromey MP Labour is a pro-worker, pro-business party. There is no contradiction. What we are not is a ‘business as usual’ party. Fundamental change is necessary. Now, the days of the Conservatives claiming to be the party of business are over. Their catastrophic handling of Brexit and the impact it could have on British business …