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Under the plans, employers would be held responsible even if they were unaware of the worker’s immigration status.

Yet even as policymakers debate the issue, the framing itself risks missing the deeper problem.

Rachel Reeves’s decision to impose a £25 billion “jobs tax” on employers in last year’s Budget remains her single biggest blunder, and that’s saying something.

A third of UK employers are using “bossware” technology to track workers’ activity, with the most common methods including monitoring emails and web browsing.