Housing:
"Labour will allow councils to borrow to build council housing again and we will suspend right to buy so that when that housing is built it stays. We will invest in building genuinely affordable homes to buy, rent or for shared ownership. We have put forward a plan to invest in building housing and to create skilled jobs in the construction sector, and to meet higher standards of energy efficiency benefiting the occupants and the environment.
"We will toughen regulation on the private rented sector to ensure homes are fit for human habitation and rents are controlled."
Environment:
"We’re not going to use public money to subsidise dirty, groundwater-polluting, landscape-scarring industries like fracking.
"We will invest in the transition to a low carbon economy, not clinging on to polluting technologies that we can consign to history by harnessing technological advances with public investment.
And that investment delivers a return; a stronger economy, better jobs with higher incomes that produce more tax revenue to better fund public services.
We have huge natural resources in the UK, a world-beating history of scientific research and technological development including in many of our institutions of academic and scientific excellence [but] as a country we lag behind the rest of the world’s major economies in generating energy from renewable sources. We lag behind on the speed of our broadband and we lag behind on our transport infrastructure too.
"Nowhere is that more true that on our railways."
Rail:
"The next Labour Government will take back control from the privateers and put control in the hands of passengers, commuters and elected politicians. We will invest in rail, invest in on-board broadband and cut fares."
NHS:
"The NHS is Labour’s proudest creation and as someone who once represented NHS workers, I know the dedication of NHS staff. But, under the Tories, the NHS is in crisis like never before.
"We know that flu epidemic or the norovirus can lead to a winter crisis but the Tories have put the NHS in crisis in spring, summer, autumn and winter. NHS waiting lists have never been longer. NHS deficits have never been larger and they are growing. More people are waiting longer in pain for an operation. More people are waiting longer, often in severe pain, in A&E.
"Over £4 billion of cuts to adult social care inflicted under the Tories has left hundreds of thousands of people without a care package. Thousands more with minimal 15 minute visits and more elderly people turning up at A&E due to neglect and not safe to be discharged home because the support is no longer there.
"Faced with this unprecedented crisis in A&Es, this unprecedented pressure on the NHS, what is the Tory solution? They wasted £3 billion on a top-down reorganisation of the NHS, they have privatised services, like ambulances in Sussex, and that privatisation has failed. Our great friend Ken Loach has quite rightly lead the protests against a £700 million privatisation of NHS services in Bath. Our excellent Shadow Health Secretary, Jonathan Ashworth, has already condemned this. They are threatening a new round of A&E closures and downgrades.
"This is why we are determined to bring all NHS Services back into the family of NHS provision.
That’s why we are focusing our National Campaign Day on Saturday 26 November on defending our NHS. So I want every CLP in the country out in their community campaigning to defend our NHS and to highlight the damage that the Tories have done. Our National Health Service - free at the point of use - with parity of esteem for mental health services and integrated with social care. That is at the very core of our vision for the kind of society we should be."
Strength in Numbers:
"Because our party doesn’t have the benevolence of the press barons, it doesn’t have the donations of oligarchs. What we have is each other. Over half a million of us. More members than every other political party in Britain, along with the millions in our affiliated trade unions.
"Our Labour Party now has over 550,000 individual members. That membership is our most valuable resource. If we organise it, then our ability to speak to voters, stand candidates, and lead campaigns in our communities, that ability is second to none. And working together, we can expose their failures on the economy, their failures on housing, their shambolic Brexit, their failed privatisation of our railways.
"By working together we can get more Labour councillors next year and a Labour Government to rebuild and transform our country so that no one and no community is left behind."
