Labour will bring green jobs built on strong trade unions – because we cannot go back to the 1980s
The Tory budget on Friday made clear where the party stands: for failed trickle-down economics and for helping the already wealthy get richer.
The cost of living crisis is wreaking havoc, with spiralling energy bills, stagnating wages, and the highest inflation in 40 years. Behind these economic buzzwords are harrowing realities, and families in every city and town having to make impossible choices this winter.
People are sick of politicians offering sticking plasters to patch up a broken economy. In our constituencies of Doncaster North and Ashton-under-Lyne, we hear the same thing time and again – that our economy doesn’t work for most working people.
That is why the Labour party has a vision to radically transform this country. That means not just addressing the cost of living crisis, but ensuring wealth and power go back into the hands of the communities that built this country in the first place.
The move to decarbonise our economy is one example of the huge opportunities we have to achieve this. But to make the transition we need a different approach to the failed economics of the 1980s, which left workers behind, and communities devastated. The scars of that period are still there to see in the constituencies we represent, but they also leave a legacy of scepticism. It’s an understandable scepticism of change until it looks like a real plan for jobs, livelihoods and communities.
Our world-leading energy plan announced today by Keir Starmer will turn this around. A clean power system by 2030 will lay the foundations of the drive to net zero, but it will also unleash waves of dynamism and industry across our country with a million well-paid jobs in the renewable and nuclear industries, built on strong trade unions.
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