You want a more skilled workforce Mr Brown? Let's start with the people on your payroll

8th March 2007
By Roderick Crawford

Getting skills right is the equivalent to beating inflation and getting labour relations right in the 1980s, says Digby Jones. Without it we will not only fail to see the public transformation in public services we all want, we will also lose the competitive advantage we have held for 250 years. But there is a third, hugely important phenomena: for millions of people in this country — for at least three million people — the job base that provides them with regular income, cont…