UK Labour’s bold plans

Restoring 14 years of political carpet bagging

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Labour’s election campaign, whilst very visual as regards to the media, contained scant details of their policies. What they did flag up was the removal of VAT on private school fees and the scrapping of the much heralded Tory plan of deporting immigrants to Rwanda. Public services are broken, prisons are overcrowded(there is a plan to release some prisoners early to make room). The NHS is on its knees due to serious underfunding over the last 14 years, and there is a real fear of privatization. The armed forces are severely depleted. It is said that if Putin declared war, the UK would struggle to supply enough troops and equipment.

The Labour Party want to restore worker’s rights, which the Tories removed, but they also need to tread the fine line dividing this from business interests. But, is combining the two, naïve and unrealistic? Surely a happy worker is more productive?

What is a first, is that the Labour Party has appointed the first female UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the person of Rachel Reeves. No stranger to finance, she spent some time in the Bank of England.

Labour won a massive landslide at the General Election, winning a 174 seat majority, due in part to the contempt held by the public against the Conservatives, who have been mired in numerous accusations of…