The Government will put Britain's job-rich recovery at risk if it adopts a heavy-handed approach towards regulating flexible work, the country's biggest business group has warned.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) described the UK's flexible labour market as an "invaluable strength" that underpinned Britain's record employment rate and boosted the country's competitiveness.

In a submission to Matthew Taylor, who has been commissioned by Prime Minister Theresa May to lead a review into modern employment, the CBI urged policymakers to embrace new ways of working and branded assumptions that all workers favoured fixed employment as "lazy" and "outdated".