Senior minister insists employment rights U-turn does not breach manifesto

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted the Employment Rights Bill remained 'the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation'.
50% : Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted the Employment Rights Bill remained "the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation", after the Government announced a key plank of it would be dropped.
49% : The Bill, Labour's flagship workers' rights package, has recently been caught in a stand-off between peers and MPs over the original plan to give workers the protection on day one, as well as measures to ban "exploitative" zero-hours contracts.
46% : The Employment Rights Bill represents the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation." Asked by Sky News if it was a broken promise, Ms Phillipson insisted it was not.
39% : The Government's decision to abandon day-one workers' rights against unfair dismissal is not a U-turn and does not break Labour's manifesto, a senior Cabinet minister has insisted.
21% : " Chancellor Rachel Reeves has also, in recent days, been accused of breaching the manifesto commitment to not raise headline taxes on working people by extending a freeze in tax thresholds at the Budget.

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