Sutton and Cheam Labour Party Sutton and Cheam Constituency Labour Party, London Borough of Sutton
National Policies & Local Manifesto
Labour National Missions, Campaign Pledges and Manifesto
More on our 6 first steps for change is here.
We set out 10 Policies to Change Britain here.
Our 5 Missions for the UK are:
Labour’s 2024 General Election Manifesto is online here, can be downloaded as a pdf here and has other accessible versions here.
The Labour Government’s legislative programme announced in the King’s Speech is set out in detail here.
Local Campaign Pledges and our full 2022 Local Manifesto
Sutton Labour: On your side
Our 10-point contract with the residents of Sutton
- We will tackle the cost of living not see you go further into debt. Labour is on your side and has proposed a national energy plan for a £600 payment to you from a windfall tax on energy companies. Locally we will provide secure, quality job opportunities and attract new business into our borough and promote wider business commitment to the London Living Wage. Poverty and the need for more food banks should never be allowed to increase in Sutton.
- We will support increased locally based Policing to tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. We will establish twice yearly open meetings across the borough where you can all directly question Police in your local area. We will invest in CCTV, better lighting and community safety hubs and work with the community to improve women’s safety locally after recent public scandals. We will commit to make sure Sutton is “No place for hate”.
- We will provide secure affordable homes for our younger people who are priced out of the borough and build more genuinely affordable, council housing in our borough. This should be safe and learn the lessons of Grenfell Tower. We want low or zero carbon houses and small-scale flats not intense development of tower blocks. We will increase registration and regulation of private landlords to support the many people who are now forced to privately rent instead of be able to buy and introduce a Sutton Private Tenant’s Charter.
- We will commit to: Cleaner Streets. Cleaner Air. Too many bins are not emptied and there is too much fly-tipping. The 12-visit rationing of recycling centre visits must end. We will aim to see if “community spring cleans” with community skips could be reintroduced like it existed in the past. We will immediately table a “notice of improvement” of contractor Veolia and then seek to bring the waste contract back in house locally so your complaints are dealt with immediately and not be managed from a distance. We will propose to residents’ ways in which we could withdraw from the Beddington Incinerator contract as well as expensive heating contracts that cost residents money.
- We will consult residents over parking and traffic schemes. We will never introduce any road or parking scheme without a full consultation and strong local consent and will ensure changes are driven by resident demands not Town Hall bureaucrats. We support a fairer system for existing parking permit fees with no hidden costs.
- We will protect our local environment. We will fight for our Parks and Open Spaces as we did by opposing building on both Rosehill Park and Sheen Way playing fields, not just one or the other as other Parties cynically did. We will ensure the council plays a key role as part of the Declaration of a Climate Emergency and seeks funds to remediate the threat of flooding in lower lying areas of the borough.
- We will protect our health and social care services and learn the lessons of the COVID pandemic. We will prepare for future pandemics with stores of PPE and a full resilience plan. We will never let our old people die in large numbers in care homes at a time when Tory Government ministers were breaking the rules. We will fight to keep all acute services at our St Helier Hospital and oppose a highly risky relocation of an A&E needed for a future pandemic right next to a cancer hospital full of clinically shielding cancer patients.
- We will provide Education and Inclusion for all. We will promote the undoubted excellence of our locally rooted primary and secondary schools that already provide places for more than 90% of Sutton pupils and will support them to increase that. We support the demands of Sutton Parents campaigning for more SEND support and improved transport. Inclusion is fundamental to our campaigning on areas from blue badge access, to fighting in support of families with children that have special educational needs and ensuring council services are not solely digital by default. We support the dignity of old age and commit to an Age-Friendly Sutton as well as commit to review and improve mental health services and address loneliness exacerbated by the COVID pandemic.
- We will stop the decline in local arts, sports & culture and revitalise our High Streets with more “meanwhile use” and pop-up shops. We will examine the possibility of the relocation of more accessible Council services to them as a core hub to sustain our High Streets post-pandemic for the long-term and ensure this only happens if it benefits local residents. We will also work with the Mayor of London to review public transport links to improve accessibility. We will seek to increase free access to sports facilities for the less well off from a key public health perspective.
- We will listen. We will consult. Too many people cannot get hold of their current Councillors. Labour is standing strong local hard-working candidates to be Councillors. We will bring in a new listening and consultation strategy led by local residents and encourage local “resident juries” and a “People’s Question Time” to hold services to account. We will develop stronger more accountable local committees, with the opportunity for them to become proper local community councils, but only if residents petition and vote for them to be. We will press for revision to existing contracts so that the Council treat employees fairly as part of a longer-term plan to in-source more services so the Council directly provides them. We will also hold our local MPs to account as they may talk about the small stuff but never tell you about all the bad things they vote for in Parliament.
Our full 2022 Local Labour Manifesto is available here.
We have also published two other policy documents for this election
Our 2022 Local Labour “Green Manifesto” is available here. There is only 1 Green candidate in 16 wards & none in 4 wards so if Green voters in Sutton want to make all their votes count in the elections on Thursday 5th May they could consider using their spare votes for Labour?
The 2022 Co-operative Agenda for Sutton is available here.
Go to the “I Will Vote” website here to find your Polling Station, Labour candidates, set up a reminder to vote or sign up to volunteer to help.
Sadiq Khan’s Manifesto for London 2024-2028
Sadiq Khan was re-elected for a historic third term on Thursday 2n May 2024. His 2024-2028 London Labour Manifesto is here and a Pdf of it is here. His 2021 Manifesto is here and his 2016 Manifesto is here. Thank you to all our local members who took part in the survey to express their views on what should be in it.
National Policy Development
The Labour Party has an annual Policy Development Programme. More details on that are on the Labour National Policy Forum website. The 2022 National Policy Forum Report is here. It refers to Sutton and Cheam Labour Party making a submission on page 94.
The final Labour Party Policy Programme produced for the General Election was published in 2023 is set out in summary here. A full version was published online here.
The Labour Party also ran a two year Policy Review called “Stronger Together”. The 2022 Stronger Together Update Report is here.
Past National Policy
To help members and supporters think about the wide range of areas where debate is needed to decide future policies, below are recent national Labour Manifestos as well as links to Manifestos right back to the first one in 1900.
Labour National Manifesto 2019
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 2019. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifesto 2017
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 2017. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifesto 2015
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 2015. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifesto 2010
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 2010. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifesto 2005
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 2005. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifesto 2001
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 2001. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifesto 1997
This is the Manifesto Labour stood on in 1997. A copy is here.
Labour National Manifestos 1900 to 1992
The Manifestos Labour stood on from 1900 to 1992 can be accessed here.
Past and Current European Policy Debates
Though the UK has left the EU there are post-Brexit issues that still require cross-border co-operation and policy discussion so these documents provide useful background information to both current and past debates. The Party of European Socialist comprises all of Labour’s sister parties across Europe so their policy agenda helps us understand current debates on the UK’s long-term relationship with it’s EU neighbour.
Party of European Socialists Manifesto 2024
The Party of European Socialist’s Manifesto for the 2024 European Parliament elections is here.
Labour European Elections Manifesto 2019
The 2019 Labour European Elections Manifesto is here.
The Party of European Socialists Manifesto 2019 is here.
Labour in for Britain Referendum Campaign 2016 – Archive
There is also still an archive online of Briefing Notes we locally produced for the EU Referendum Campaign which we provide as a historical record of that time.
Labour European Elections Manifesto 2014
The 2014 Labour European Elections Manifesto is here.
The Party of European Socialists Manifesto 2014 is here.
Labour European Elections Manifesto 2009
The Party of European Socialists Manifesto 2009 is here.
Labour European Elections Manifesto 2004
The 2004 Labour European Elections Manifesto is here.
The 2004 Party of European Socialists Manifesto is here.
Labour European Elections Manifesto 1999
The 1999 Party of European Socialists Manifesto is here.