Tories hanker for the 70s too

Theresa May goes after Labour voters with her extension of workers' rights. Emily Hohler reports.

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Comrade May rallies the workers
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Prime minister Theresa May this week announced an 11-point plan that she describes in the Financial Times as the "greatest extension of rights and protections for employees by a Conservative government in history". It includes among other things a promise to keep all workers' rights currently guaranteed by European Union law, to grant staff the statutory right to time off for training and bereavement, and to ensure their jobs are kept open if they need to take time off to care for a relative.

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Emily Hohler
Politics editor

Emily has worked as a journalist for more than thirty years and was formerly Assistant Editor of MoneyWeek, which she helped launch in 2000. Prior to this, she was Deputy Features Editor of The Times and a Commissioning Editor for The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph. She has written for most of the national newspapers including The Times, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, The Evening Standard and The Daily Mail, She interviewed celebrities weekly for The Sunday Telegraph and wrote a regular column for The Evening Standard. As Political Editor of MoneyWeek, Emily has covered subjects from Brexit to the Gaza war.

Aside from her writing, Emily trained as Nutritional Therapist following her son's diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes in 2011 and now works as a practitioner for Nature Doc, offering one-to-one consultations and running workshops in Oxfordshire.