JUEMIN XU

Labour promotes social safety net. A good social safety net is necessary to encourage people to take risks and invest in themselves: take training opportunities, start a new job, and invest in a new business. They can afford to be adventurous and creative. The social safety net not only includes benefits and allowances but also includes health safety, i.e. our NHS. People know if they fail, if they are sick, they will still be supported. Labour's longstanding policies of protecting benefits and NHS are good for business... We need to diversify industries. According to the research by the National Office of Statistics, people who stay in the same job have low earning growth. Earning is increased if a person changes their job. Earnings increase even more when people move between different industries. A diversified economy creates such opportunities to change jobs and move between industries. We should endeavour to attract investment in a variety of industries and build a diversified..