Tag: Labour Party Press Release

Below is a press release issued by the Labour Party on 22/11/2019.

Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour Party, responding to news that the UK has ignored a deadline to give up control of the Chagos Islands, said:

“It’s clear that in refusing to return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and defying the UN General Assembly and International Court of Justice, this Conservative government shamefully considers itself to be above international law.

“A Labour government will end colonial rule. We immediately will enact our manifesto promise to allow the people of the Chagos Islands and their descendants the right to return to the lands from which they should never have been removed.”

Below is a press release issued by the Labour Party on 23/11/2019.

“This is a no-hope manifesto, from a party that has nothing to offer the country, after spending ten years cutting our public services to the bone. This pathetic offer from Boris Johnson’s Tories means more cuts, more failure and more years of Brexit uncertainty.

“Young people can’t afford to buy a home, older people are going without the care they need, our NHS is heading into the worst winter crisis on record and millions of children are growing up in poverty.

“The only people who benefit from this no hope manifesto are big business and the super-rich who don’t want to see the real change this country needs.

“This election is a once-in-a-generation chance to elect a Labour government that will transform our country, with a manifesto that offers real change, and take on the vested interests holding people back.”

Below is a press release issued by the Labour Party on 19/11/2019.

Angela Rayner, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the launch of the Lib-Dems’ manifesto tomorrow and their new announcement on schools, said:

“This is an austerity manifesto from a party that has recently welcomed in many former Tory MPs with open arms.

“Young people getting into debts today of over £55,000 will never forget the Lib-Dems’ betrayal on tuition fees and austerity.

“Voting for the Lib-Dems in this election is a wasted vote that will only open the door to a post-Brexit Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage alliance with Donald Trump to sell off our NHS.”

Below is a press release issued by the Labour Party on 19/11/2019.

Labour is tomorrow pledging to wage war on the “ten modern scourges of poverty” and reverse the damage that a decade of austerity under the Tories has caused.

The party is publishing a new Report – “Poverty Britain” – which highlights ten ways the Tories have failed to tackle poverty and entrenched hardship in society.

The report includes new analysis that shows:

Wage stagnation under the Tories has cost the average worker around £6,300 in lost wages.

Food banks have given out 65 million meals in the last five years, the equivalent of a meal for every person in the whole of the UK.

There are now over 20 million adults with no savings, an increase of nearly three million since 2010/11.

A near 50 per cent increase in the number of children in severe low income and deprivation between 2011/12 and 2017/18.

Poverty in families where someone is disabled has risen by over a million since 2010.

In-work poverty has increased by 1.5 million since 2010/11.

John McDonnell, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said:

“Poverty in Britain is now the most visible and widespread it has been in decades.

“This new report shows the Tories have failed to tackle ten modern scourges of poverty, each becoming more entrenched on their watch.

“The next Labour government will wage war on poverty in all its forms, eliminating in-work poverty, ending austerity and raising living standards across the country.

“The choice at this election couldn’t be clearer: more stress and struggle for millions to make ends meet under the Tories or real change with Labour.”

Labour will:

Introduce immediately a Real Living Wage of £10 an hour for everyone over 16

Eliminate in-work poverty over the course of our first parliament

Scrap Universal Credit, the benefit cap, the Two Child limit and end the freeze on working-age benefits.

Rebuild a social security system dedicated to dignity, universalism and ending poverty.

Clamp down on problem debt by capping credit card and overdraft repayments so that borrowers never repay more in interest than they originally borrowed.

Expand free childcare, open 1,000 new Sure Start centres and provide universal Free School Meals for all primary school children

Tackle the Tories’ productivity crisis with a programme of large scale investment in skills, infrastructure and innovation

Set a target for ending the need for food banks altogether within our first three years, and halve food bank usage within our first year.

End rough sleeping within a Parliament, starting with a plan to ring-fence an extra 8,000 homes for people with a history of rough sleeping and £100 million to tackle immediate winter pressures.

Protect pensioner incomes by legislating to keep the Triple Lock on state pensions as well as guaranteeing free TV licences, free bus passes and Winter Fuel Payments.

Bring justice for women born in the 1950s affected by the Tories’ changes to the State Pension age