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Letter: Job insecurity is not in the mind

Sir: As your leading article (13 September) rightly argued, for job flexibility to be successful, people need support from the Government. Unless their personal environment is secure enough they will not have either the ability or the opportunity to adapt and re-skill.

Which is why the Conservative government's policies are so disastrous in the new world of work. Ministers will not even acknowledge reality. On Thursday, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, William Waldegrave, echoed his Cabinet colleague, Ian Lang, who maintained that job insecurity was just "a state of mind".

That flies in the face of all the evidence. Ministers may talk up falling figures on the unemployment register. ...

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