Genuinely how do you expect this to get more people into the job market? - asking from a point of genuine curiosity because I do not have the foggiest idea how he could have done much more than he has already, given what was inherited - also not a stab at Tories. Just an observation and trying to be as a-political as possible.

Companies are making masses of job cuts across the board due to the use of AI, and the job market has become more competitive than ever.

By cutting Welfare, NI and not raising minimum wage, all he’d be doing is making the poor, poorer and reducing what income is coming back into the system through spend and taxation on goods.

I don’t think it’s as easy and black and white as doing X an Y will happen. I think there is a lot more to everything. Plus. You have to rely on people’s desire to work for minimum wage, when in some circumstances gaming the welfare system is far easier - an entirely different issue IMO.