Boris Johnson is allowed a holiday. Everyone should be allowed (paid) holidays. Including people forced to work on bogus self-employment contracts, who aren’t. And temps who currently are but only thanks to the EU Working Time Directive that Tories want to get out of.

I still remember working 2 years as a temp, debt-laden post college, unable to afford take any time off bar weekends and bank holidays even over Xmas, and then the EU rules were transposed into UK law and I got *paid holiday* and it was sooooooo nice.

Boris Johnson called the EU Working Time Directive, which mandates 4 weeks paid holiday and a maximum (tho many opt outs) 48-hour week, “back breaking”. No Boris, it’s working without enough rest that’s “back breaking”. #wheresBoris

Andrea Leadsom said those working for small businesses should have no legal entitlement to holiday, maternity leave, etc, or as she put it, “absolutely no regulation whatsoever”

Liam Fox said the Working Time Directive was a “burden” and protecting it was “intellectually unsustainable”

Iain Duncan Smith refused to say whether Brexit Britain should keep Working Time Directive protection that requires employers to allow some paid holiday, saying it was better to be “flexible”

Priti Patel suggested halving the “burden” of EU employment rights like the Working Time Directive that mandates 4 weeks paid holidays (inclusive of bank holidays). So... 2 weeks, then, Priti?

I can’t find particularly clear quotes from the WTD’s leading opponents, Gove and Rees-Mogg, as they seem to lobby privately, & publicly couch their well-known hatred of the holiday-protecting directive in fancy opaque language, but feel free to add your own!