The key to tackling the cost of living crisis is to bring economic stability. To do this, Labour will:

• Stick to tough fiscal rules with economic stability at their heart.
• Introduce a new fiscal lock to bring economic security back to family finances by empowering the Office of Budget Responsibility. Never again will we allow a repeat of the devastation of Liz Truss and the Conservatives’ mini-budget that crashed the economy and left working people worse off.
• Set up a new Office for Value for Money to ensure all taxpayers’ money is spent wisely.
• Halve government consultancy spending, by bringing in proper spending controls and having a long term staffing strategy.
• Appoint a Covid Corruption Commissioner, equipped with the powers they need to chase down those who have ripped off the taxpayer, take them to court, and claw back every penny of taxpayers’ money that they can.
• End VIP ‘fast lane’ procurement processes that allow party political cronies to make money out of contracts from their political friends

To tackle out of control bills, Labour will switch on Great British Energy , a publicly-owned clean power company, to cut annual energy bills for good, paid for by a windfall tax on oil and gas giants, and we’ll insulate millions of homes – making families up to £800 better off a year.

The NHS is on it’s knees with 8 million people on waiting lists, ambulances not coming when they are needed, huge queues at A&E, massive difficulty booking a GP appointment and NHS dentistry services often impossible to find.

To remedy this, Labour will:

• Legislate to eliminate the “non-dom” tax status claimed by rich millionaire oligarchs and crack-down on tax avoidance, raising several billion pounds
• Cut waiting times by immediately creating 40,000 new appointments each week staffed by existing staff being paid overtime
• Get the NHS working more efficiently, by setting up shared waiting lists and collaboration between hospitals, and trialling Neighbourhood Health Centres, bringing together doctors, district nurses, care workers, physiotherapists, and mental health specialists under one roof.
• Reform primary care to bring back the family doctor, harness the power of the NHS App to make it easier to get an appointment and reduce the workload on GPs by cutting red tape.

We have fixed the NHS before and we’ll fix it again.

We tell our children and grandchildren that if you work hard and play by the rules, you will get on in life. Sadly, this is no longer true for too many people. Where you are born and how wealthy your parents are too often determines where you end up. We’ve got to break that link.

To do this Labour will:

• End tax breaks for private schools, thus generating billions of pounds of revenue to fund state education.
• Recruit 6,500 new teachers in key subjects to set children up for life, work and the future
• Boost standards and ensure that every child has access to high quality education provision
• Review the school curriculum so that it has greater breadth including developing creativity, digital and communication skills that will set young people up for life and work.
• Ensure that every secondary school has at least one mental health professional on site
• Expand apprenticeships and skills training to spread opportunity for all

Labour believes that security is the bedrock on which opportunities are built, communities can thrive, and local economies can prosper. Security means knowing someone will be there for you if things go wrong, and that laws will be respected and enforced.

To do this, Labour will:

• Crack down on antisocial behaviour with more neighbourhood police paid for by ending wasteful contracts, tough new penalties for offenders, and a new network of youth hubs.
• Put 13,000 extra neighbourhood police and PCSOs on the beat and give every community a named officer they can get in touch with, so policing gets back to doing what it’s supposed to do.  
• Ensure that all rape and domestic violence cases get to court within 6 months maximum
• Introduce new laws to protect staff working in retail from the epidemic of shoplifting and aggressive anti-social behaviour

Green energy from wind and solar is now half the price of electricity generated from gas or oil, it’s produced within the UK and it creates minimal greenhouse gases. Our entire future must be green energy. We really can now reduce energy bills, reduce our dependence on unstable international markets and save the planet – all at the same time!

The Labour plan is to:

• Immediately resume the construction of on-shore wind farms (which were stopped by the Tories in 2015). These are cheap to build and give the lowest price electricity possible.
• Set up Great British Energy, a publicly-owned clean power company, to cut bills for good and boost energy security, paid for by a windfall tax on oil and gas giants.
• Create enough electricity capacity through on-shore-wind, off-shore-wind and solar to make the UK’s electricity supply carbon neutral by 2030
• Develop a comprehensive program of home insulation.
• Prosecute the bosses of water companies who dump excessive sewerage in river

The key to everything is investing in clean, cheap sustainable energy.

We are in the midst of a housing crisis with many young people unable to afford to either rent or buy their own home. Rents have risen astronomically and the last time house prices were this high relative to earnings was in 1876. The dream of owning your own home is now just a dream for the majority of young people.

To resolve this problem, Labour will reform planning laws to build 1.5 million more homes over the next 5 years with the majority of these homes being affordable homes accessible to first time buyers. We will also insist that developers support all new housing developments with appropriate infrastructure – roads, schools, doctors surgeries, sewers and fibre optic broadband.

The only way to reduce the price of housing for young people is to increase the supply of new housing massively