# Budget assurances for business clouded by Healey’s meeting with union leaders

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/daily-mail-comment-as-the-budget-approaches-it-is-increasingly-clear-that-the-chancellors-strings-are-being-pulled-by-the-unions/
- Published: 2026-10-22T23:59:46+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:22:29+00:00
- Original publisher: Daily Mail (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16230959/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-Budget-approaches-increasingly-clear-Chancellors-strings-pulled-unions.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490
- Topics: World

## Key points

- The article questions whether the Budget will deliver for businesses.
- It says union access and strike rules are changing.
- It also criticises the Government’s household emergency advice.

## Summary

The article argues that Chancellor John Healey’s signals of a pro-business Budget are undermined by his meeting with union leaders who, it says, want higher public spending and taxes on wealthier people. It presents the meeting as evidence that unions have influence over the Government and raises doubts about whether next week’s Budget will offer meaningful support to businesses.

It also criticises the Employment Rights Act, saying it will let union officials enter workplaces more freely and reduce the notice period for industrial action from 14 days to 10. The article calls for the Government to reverse increased employer National Insurance contributions and separately questions the value of household emergency guidance, which recommends supplies such as water, cash, a torch, wet wipes and tinned food.

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