UK is at a turning point: we want rising wages, PM Johnson says
Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks on as he attends the annual Conservative Party conference, in Manchester, Britain, October 4, 2021. REUTERS FILE PHOTO
LONDON — Britain’s economy is at a turning point and the government welcomes rising wages but will not return to the old approach of low investment and low skills, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday.
“What I don’t think would be a good idea would be to go backwards to the kind of low wage, low investment, low skill approach that we’ve had before. And so it’s really a big turning point for the UK and an opportunity for us to go in a different direction,” Johnson told BBC TV.
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