The Labour Party has launched its manifesto for the General Election – and is asking for a mandate to change our country.
You can find the manifesto at https://labour.org.uk/change/.
Labour’s manifesto is our plan for change if we win on 4 July. It is an ambitious programme driven by belief in our country and its potential for the future – a programme to get back to economic growth and get back hope and opportunity for the next generation. It is the change the country needs.
Rishi Sunak was supposed to restore stability after the Liz Truss disaster. Instead, he has become the latest Conservative version of her. People know the cost of Conservative chaos. They want an alternative to it, not a repeat of it.
That is why Labour’s manifesto takes a different approach. It is a fully-costed, fully-funded, credible plan to turn the country round after 14 years of the Conservatives. It’s not just a set of policies to change Britain, but a reflection of how Labour has changed – so that it is back in the service of the British people.
The essential foundation is economic stability. That is the rock upon which everything else will be built. We will protect working people from further tax rises by not raising income tax, National Insurance, or VAT. There is nothing in the manifesto that requires tax rises beyond the measures we have already set out.
Instead of hiking taxes, we will focus on getting the economy growing – reforming planning to get investment moving, speeding up the transition to cleaner power, and opening up home ownership to a new generation. We have set out six first steps for beginning to change Britain:
- Delivering economic stability with tough new fiscal rules, and respecting institutions like the Office for Budget Responsibility.
- Deliver 40,000 NHS appointments a week, including at evenings and weekends, to drive down waiting lists.
- Create a new Border Security Command to target the criminal gangs trading in human lives across the Channel.
- Establish Great British Energy, a new, publicly-owned company to get private investment in renewables and bring down your energy bills.
- Tackle anti-social behaviour by getting police officers back on the beat – and create Youth Hubs in every community to prevent crime in the first place.
- Give children the best possible education, with 6,500 more teachers in our classrooms and a modernised curriculum.
The choice at the election is clear: five more years of Conservative chaos, or stability with a changed Labour Party to end the chaos, turn the page and rebuild Britain.
