A decent career for young & no debts
BRITAIN once had a reputation as a world-builder.
Now we don’t even have the brickies to build enough houses.
According to building boss Ian Hodgkinson there are only 70,000 skilled bricklayers working in Britain.
They are in such demand that some are earning £2,500 a week.
So much for Rishi Sunak hitting a target of 300,000 new homes a year.
The Government has relaxed migration rules so that skilled foreign bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and roofers can come over and try to fill the gaps.
But it is crazy that this nation, with its proud history of world-beating craftsmanship, can’t train up more apprentices of our own.
Skills Minister Robert Halfon says £2.7bn is available to encourage businesses to offer more apprenticeships.
The Government needs to make sure it is better spent because not enough young men and women are being incentivised into construction jobs.
Our Builder Better Britain campaign will highlight the skilled training, technical courses and on-the-job experience available.
The construction industry offers a vital, well-paid career.
And it won’t land young people with a duff university degree and a £27,000 student debt.
Sir Softie’s so wrong
SOFTIE Keir Starmer howls with rage over Government plans to send migrants to Rwanda.
But how can the Labour leader be trusted on migration when he won’t even allow the deportation of vicious criminals?
We already know that his appeal helped block a flight containing several foreign criminals who went on to re-offend in Britain.
Today we reveal that another thug on the same grounded flight later savagely beat up an emergency worker.
This is the opposite of being tough on crime. Labour have no credible alternative to the Rwanda scheme.
And on criminals and migration Sir Softie has got it badly wrong.
Step on gas, Shapps
THE hidden green charges levied on our energy bills are long overdue for reform.
We welcome the plans of Energy Secretary Grant Shapps to scrap the anomaly where electricity is taxed four times more than gas.
The move could save electricity-only households up to £100 a year.
But why has it taken Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to highlight this madness?
Time to step on the gas, Mr Shapps, and get this mayhem sorted.
