After Angela Rayner’s exit from government, what’s the future for employment rights in the UK?

After Angela Rayner’s exit from government, what’s the future for employment rights in the UK?

CandyBox Images/ShutterstockAfter the resignation of Angela Rayner, the UK government faces an urgent question: what will happen to its flagship employment rights bill? The former deputy prime minister was an important champion of the bill – and businesses have seized an opportunity to call for it to be diluted. At the same time, unions are pressing hard in the opposite direction. Shortly after Labour won office in 2024, prime minister Keir Star…