Worth noting that the same day these negotiations to ditch day one rights to claim unfair dismissal were going on (Monday), No 10 told us they would "overturn all attempts to scupper these plans, including watering down day one protection from unfair dismissal".

More details here from last week - hope it clarifies www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

Would mean difficult decisions about how to allocate those cuts or - as @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social suggests is more likely - a return to Tory approach of pencilling in fantasy spending numbers to hit fiscal rules, before topping up closer to time.

It comes after our @jessicaelgot.bsky.social revealed that criminals will be stopped from “gaming the system” by choosing trial by jury to increase chances of proceedings collapsing - and that govt was planning radical changes to limit jury trials by next election.

Full story by @syalrajeev.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

“Reform's l’ship should have the courage to launch an investigation. How on earth did that happen? What other links are there?

“Today will reinforce, once again, that Reform with their pro-Putin approach would have absolutely no role in bringing allies together on important issues across the board”

If you missed it at the time, do please tune in here...

And fingers crossed @inhousecomms.bsky.social!

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