Skip to main content

Watch: Shadow transport sec backs #SaveTravelJobs

Government
Tom Parry
6 August 2021

The UK’s shadow transport secretary has given his backing to TTG’s #SaveTravelJobs battle – calling on government to do “far more than they’re currently proposing” in order to help beleaguered travel businesses. 

Agents have recently told TTG of “sleepless nights” as well as concerns about how the end of furlough “will devastate retail travel”

Just days after launching the campaign earlier this week, Labour’s Jim McMahon delivered his support in a new video and echoed Abta’s fears 200,000 industry jobs could be lost should ministers not step up and do more.

In the video released on Friday (6 August), McMahon warned: “If we don’t save travel jobs that means our regions, our households and our economy ultimately will be much worse off.”