The leader of the Green Party has spoken about the importance of creating an employment programme which actually works and helps get people back into
UK jobs as soon as possible.
Caroline Lucas wrote in the Guardian about the party's policy on job creation and she criticised the coalition government's new plans to cut public spending by £6 billion.
"We need the sort of job-creation programme that was at the heart of the Green Party's recent election manifesto, which set out a coherent programme of investment to create the green infrastructure we so urgently need if we're to shift to a genuinely sustainable economy," she wrote.
Retrofitting properties was one suggestion that the leader made in order to create new
UK jobs and she said it would create work for engineers, construction workers, electricians and others.
Prof Joshua Bamfield, director of the Centre for Retail Research, believes that small companies are required to conform to too many regulations and this is holding their progression back.