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Labour Party homes policy: How we will keep mortgage rates low and help first-time buyers with a new Freedom to Buy scheme
Labour knows how hard it has been for families hit by spiking mortgage costs. Working people cannot afford a repeat of Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget that sent mortgage rates skyrocketing. That is why Labour’s first step for change is delivering economic stability, with…
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Revealed: The Conservatives’ £71 billion worth of reckless spending will lead to interest rate rises
The Labour Party has today held an emergency press conference to expose the threat to economic stability posed by Rishi Sunak’s reckless and unfunded general election promises.Darren Jones, Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, released new analysis of the £71 billion worth of pledges Rishi Sunak has already promised just seven…
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What Labour will do to ease the cost of living: How we’ll bring down bills, get wages rising and tackle sky-high prices
After 14 years of the Tories, people in Britain are facing soaring mortgages, sky-rocketing bills and the highest tax burden in 70 years. And if Rishi Sunak and the Tories are given five more years in the General Election on 4 July, the average British…
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Keir Starmer launches Labour’s first steps for change in Thurrock
Keir Starmer MP, Leader of the Labour Party, launching Labour’s first steps for change in Thurrock, said: Thank you all for that welcome. I don’t know about you. But I found those stories, whether it’s on the screens on the videos or in person here,…
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Watch: The Tories don’t see the cost of chaos to working people. But Britain can turn the corner
After 14 years of the Tories, Britain isn’t working. Mortgages are sky-high. The tax burden is at its highest level for 70 years. NHS waiting lists are leaving people waiting months for vital treatment. And a failure to build homes is leaving families locked…
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Rachel Reeves Mais Lecture 2024
Thank you. It is a privilege to be here at Bayes Business School this evening. To look back over past Mais Lectures is not just to survey the thoughts of the key figures in British economic policymaking over four and a half decades. It…
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Keir Starmer’s response to the Budget
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. There we have it. The last desperate act of a party that has failed. Britain in recession. The national credit card – maxed out. And despite the measures today, the highest tax burden for 70 years. The first Parliament…
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Keir Starmer speech to Scottish Labour Conference
Thank you. Thank you conference. And thank you Eileen. Speaking on behalf of everyone here I’m sure, my heart goes out to you, for what you and your family have been through. Believe you me – I know what that kind of loss is…
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Keir Starmer speech at Labour’s Business Conference
Thank you Con and thanks to Bloomberg for sponsoring this event. It’s really great to be here and thank you all for coming, being here in this hall with us, and what an impressive room this is. A testament, I think, to the changes…
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Rachel Reeves speech at Labour’s Business Conference
Thank you, Erin. And thank you to our sponsors HSBC Innovation Bank. It is a pleasure to be here – and to see so many familiar faces. And it is testament to the progress this party has made under Keir’s leadership, to have all…
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Annual Conference 2025 – General Information
Annual Conference 2025 General Information Here you will find useful information about how Conference works and what to expect as an Annual Conference attendee. Click ‘what to expect’ for information on the constitutional elements of Conference. Our…
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Rachel Reeves responds to the Autumn Statement
Today, the Chancellor has lifted the lid on thirteen years of economic failure. We were told to expect an Autumn Statement for growth. But the economy is now forecast to be £40bn smaller by 2027 than the Chancellor said back in March. Growth revised…