Box of delight

The government has abandoned plans to force businesses to reveal how many foreign staff they employ, following widespread condemnation and accusations that the policy was akin to tattooing workers “with numbers on their forearms”.

Last week, Theresa May vowed on the steps of Downing Street to fight the “burning injustice” of inequality and to lead a government driven not by the interests of the privileged few, but by the needs of ordinary families.

Only time will tell if this is the ambitious vision of a leader who wants her legacy to be much more than the successful negotiation of Britain’s exit from the European Union.