Labour: Together with Pride
Creating an Economy that works for All
Appoint a Minister for Mutuals under the Department for Business,
who will oversee a strengthened Inclusive Economy Unit to introduce
reforms to laws governing cooperative enterprises, which suffer from
too much red-tape.
Support legislation that creates a British “Marcora Law”, like that in Italy,
that allows employee buyouts of closing or bankrupt companies.
Increase the minimum wage to £10.50 to make up for the failure of
successive Governments to raise it with inflation and create a real living
wage.
Raise the minimum apprenticeship wage to £6.80 an hour to ensure
that apprentices are not just used for cheap labour.
Introduce a bold reform to vacation time, that would see workers
receive an additional four weeks vacation time, that would be
non-mandatory and unpaid, on top of the current requirement. If
workers decide to not take these four weeks, each week will be
“bought out” by the company for 2% of their annual income. This will
see workers receive an extra 2% of their annual income for each of the
four weeks they did not take at the end of the year.
Implement twelve paid Absence Days a year for workers. These are
only for short term illnesses that last for one or two days.
Learning From the Best
Move away from a curriculum based on memorisation and
examination, to focus more on coursework and vocational training.
Reducing the number of national exams and ending requirements
for annual testing for pre-GCSE students, instead giving teachers
the option to hold an exam if they feel it would be beneficial.
Create a real alternative to sixth form and college for less academic
students, by creating T-Levels, a qualification of the same value
as an A-Level for vocational education. Look at creating new
institutions to focus on post-16 vocational training.
Establish a school digitalisation task force. This task force will
create a larger strategy on how to incorporate digitalisation to
schools, files, and homework as well as daily life.
Replace PSHE with a new “Life Skills” curriculum.
Remove tax-free charity status from private schools to end the
subsidisation of education for a wealthy minority, and redirect that
money to state schools.
Require that all teachers have a masters degree, and ensure this is
affordable for all.
Tighten teacher selection, improve teacher training, and raise teacher
pay.
Teachers should be offered regular health assessments by school
health practitioners.
Ensure that teachers are being offered regular training opportunities
and courses on new technology, topics, or techniques that they might find
useful in the classroom.
Reform the national curriculum to give teachers far greater
autonomy and independence to teach to the needs of their students.
An Inclusive Nation
Fight all legislation that would harm or disparage immigrants.
Abolish the strict minimum income threshold for non-EU spouses
and children and other anti-family reunification policies.
Repeal unjust requirements on adult dependent relatives so
families can be together.
Create Right to Rent Consultative Panel which will monitor and
evaluate the unfair Right to Rent scheme.
Expand the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme to
offer a new, safe home to 50,000 during the next Parliament.
Take in 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children and offer these
children indefinite leave to remain, so they are not deported at 18.
Offer asylum to LGBTQ+ individuals fleeing countries where they are
at risk of persecution or punishment.
Legislate to prohibit the cross-examination of a victim of domestic
or sexual abuse by their alleged attacker in any court proceedings.
Protect legal aid funding and ensure that all who need it receive it.
Protecting our NHS
Invest 50 billion over 5 years into the NHS
Oppose any and all privatisation of the NHS and begin to reduce
private influence in our NHS.
Formulate a ten-year funding plan, in coordination with our service’s
top executives and experts, based on projected costs over the next
decade.
Require that NHS trusts deliver an annual report to the Department
of Health on their use of private services.
Cap the amount of private profit that can be made from our health
service.
Set up a global recruitment drive to ensure that our NHS continues to
be fully staffed and explore options to increase the number
of medical professionals trained in the UK.
Require NHS boards to create local improvement strategies, and
that NHS England has a national strategy.
Rescuing Forgotten Communities
Introduce a de-industrialisation impact fund to help communities that
have deteriorated due to the loss of industry.
Support a Blue New Deal initiative which works to revitalise
coastal towns.
Introduce Community Development Funding, a targeted grant provided
to local government to help in the redevelopment of destitute and
deprived areas.
Introduce new regulations to prevent the sale and purchase of homes
using funds that originate from corrupt or criminal foreign dealings
through Unexplained Wealth Orders.
Empower local authorities to clear blighted and derelict buildings and
build new council homes in their place.
Build 300,000 councils homes every year to address the urgent need for
new housing across the country.
Refurbish existing council homes to meet modern standards in regards
to safety, the environment and quality of life.
Introduce a “Housing First” policy on homelessness, which prioritises
giving rough sleepers a place to live to help address long term issues, and
give those without a home first priority on social housing waiting
lists.
OOC Note: I didn't do this alone, I got a lot of help from friends of mine from the UK, and I couldn't have done this without them.
