Key Pledges being delivered on:

• Raising living standards in every part of the United Kingdom, so working people have more money in their pocket
• Get Britain building again. Labour will get Britain building again, with 1.5 million new homes and fast-tracking planning decisions to create decent affordable housing for working people. Our plan will deliver lower bills, good jobs, and energy security for our country.
• Get the NHS back on its feet. Labour will deliver two million more appointments a year and train more doctors, nurses and midwives. We will end hospital backlogs to meet the NHS standard of 92% of patients in England waiting no long than 18 weeks for elective treatment, so your family can be seen sooner
• Take back our streets. Labour will put 13,000 more neighbourhood police and PCSOs back on our streets with a named Police Officer for every community. Your town centre and neighbourhood will feel safer and you won’t feel scared when you walk home at night.
• Switch on Great British Energy.Labour will create a publicly owned energy company – GB Energy – securing good jobs and energy security for Britain. That means more jobs in Britain. It will secure home-grown energy to help protect billpayers, while also accelerating the UK to net zero.
• Break down barriers to opportunity. Labour will recruit 6,500 more teachers and we will expand training opportunities through Technical Excellence Colleges. So your children, no matter their background can achieve what they want in life. This will give children the best start in life, so 75% of five-year-olds in England are ready to learn when they start school

Delivery so far:

NHS 

• Ended junior doctor strikes, helping to cut NHS waiting lists in the East of England.
• Secured £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth across the East of England.
• Announced that over 1,000 more GPs will be recruited this year, supporting NHS services across the East of England.
• Set out his long-term plan to rebuild our NHS for good and transform services across the East of England over the next 10 years.

Labour has hit the ground running, negotiating a deal with the junior doctors to

end the strikes within the first three weeks of government, so that staff are back

on the front line treating patients.

The Government has had to make difficult decisions. The Tories left a £22 billion

black hole in the nation’s finances, meaning tough choices at the Budget. Labour

has chosen to invest in Britain’s future so we can fix our NHS, with £26 billion of

funding to support delivery of an extra 40,000 elective appointments a week as well

as AI-enabled scanners and funding to open new mental health crisis centres. This

cash injection will help to fix the foundations of our most cherished public service.

That investment will only deliver if it is linked to reform, and this will take time.

Labour are working with staff, patients, experts and the wider public to develop

a 10-year plan to consider the three big shifts our NHS needs – from analogue to

digital, from hospital to community, and from sickness to prevention. The NHS is in

a critical condition, but this transformative plan can lift it off its knees and make it

ft for the future.

The Prime Minister has put us on the path to achieving change by setting out

radical reforms to elective care, so that millions of patients are able to access

more appointments closer to home and have more choice over their treatment.

This includes the expanded use of Community Diagnostic Centres and new

surgical hubs, as well as harnessing technology to support staff and the NHS to

do things more efficiently.

We also know that the current social care system is in crisis, not just failing to

meet people’s needs, but also piling huge pressures on our NHS. People are stuck

in hospital waiting to be discharged because there isn’t social care available for

them. That’s why the Government has launched an independent commission

on social care to help build a cross-party consensus on adult social care, so that

people can live active and fulfilling lives.

Labour has started to fix the front door to the NHS and focus on shifting care from

hospitals and into the community, cutting red tape to recruit an extra 1,000 GPs,

an extra £889 million of investment, and greater flexibility for GPs to bring back

the family doctor so GPs can spend more time with their patients.

We said that we’d turn the NHS around, and that’s exactly what we’re delivering.

While we’re already making progress, we know that the job isn’t done yet.

Through the Plan for Change, we can end hospital backlogs for good and

get the NHS back on its feet.

 

This Labour government inherited a broken NHS, with waiting lists spiralling

and patients waiting in agony for treatment.

That’s why our Plan for Change has set the ambitious but achievable target

of cutting waiting lists from 18 months to 18 weeks. While our NHS cannot be

fixed with the flick of a switch, Labour has already taken strong steps to get

it back on its feet, including:

 Met our pledge to deliver two million extra NHS appointments,

seven months early.

 Funding 40,000 additional NHS appointments, scans,

and operations weekly.

 Providing an additional £25.6 billion over two years across revenue

and capital budgets for the Department for Health and Social Care,

including the NHS.

 Taking immediate action to agree a deal with junior doctors to end

their strikes.

 Bringing forward legislation to modernise the Mental Health Act and to

recruit 8,500 mental health workers, including specialist mental health

professionals in every school.

 Started working with staff and patients to develop a ten-year plan to

shift the NHS from analogue to digital, from hospital to community,

and from sickness to prevention.

 Taking our first steps to fix the front door of the NHS with a landmark

agreement with GPs to slash red tape and end the 8am scramble

for appointments.

 Announcing the rollout of 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments,

delivering on Labour’s manifesto commitment

This is already paying off, with waiting lists falling by almost 160,000

between July and December, and more than half a million extra diagnostic

tests delivered.

 

• Hospital waiting lists down for 4 months in a row
• Labour have met their manifesto pledge of 2m extra NHS appointments in their first year, 7 months early
• 100,000 more treatments, tests and scans for patients each week

 

Transport

• Ended train strikes in the East of England, delivering for passengers.
• Launched new legislation to bring the UK’s railways back into public ownership which will improve rail services across the East of England.
• Given communities in the East of England more power over their local bus services.

• Public Ownership of Rail agreed by Parliament

Crime and Border Security

• Kickstarted a plan to restore neighbourhood policing in the East of England.
• Scrapped the wasteful Rwanda scheme and launched a Border Security Command to smash the criminal smuggling gangs and improve the UK’s border security.

 

To deliver on Labour’s plan for change, the Government has already invested

£200 million to kickstart the recruitment of 13,000 more neighbourhood police

officers and PCSOs and has delivered a vital £1 billion funding boost to policing.

Furthermore, to provide the police with greater powers to tackle

anti-social behaviour and retail crime, the government has introduced

major legislative reform through its Crime & Policing Bill – delivering on

our manifesto commitments. One of the new measures included is the

introduction of Respect Orders. These will have the power to ban persistent

offenders from town centres, where they are causing misery to local people.

The Bill also contains stronger powers for the police to crack down on

dangerous and deafening off-road bikes by allowing officers to seize

vehicles being used antisocially without having to give a warning first.

Tackling knife violence is another key priority for this government. In September

2024, the Prime Minister launched a new coalition to tackle knife crime, bringing

together campaign groups, families of people who have tragically lost their

lives to knife crime, young people who have been impacted and community

leaders – all united in their mission to save lives and make Britain a safer place

for the next generation.

The Government is already taking dangerous weapons off our streets,

with a ban on the manufacture, supply, sale and possession of zombie-style

knives and machetes having come into force in September last year, and work

currently underway to deliver a ban on ninja swords as part of ‘Ronan’s Law’,

which will also see a major crackdown on unlawful online sales.

With Labour also setting the ambitious target of halving violence against

women and girls over the next decade, the Government has already taken

significant steps to transform the policing response to these heinous crimes.

These include announcing Raneem’s Law, which will see domestic abuse

specialists placed in 999 control rooms, new measures to tackle spiking and

stalking, changing the law to put controlling or coercive behaviour on a par

with other domestic abuse offences, and the long-overdue roll-out of the pilot

for new Domestic Abuse Protection Orders.

The Government has hit the ground running with major new measures to start

delivering on its Safer Streets mission to halve the most serious violence and

to rebuild public confidence in policing. To ensure it can meet these important

milestones, this commission will creatively consider how to overcome any

obstacles and challenges that may arise during the delivery phase of this

ambitious agenda.

 

Labour is determined to rebuild neighbourhood policing, to improve

performance across police forces, and to ensure that the highest

standards are being upheld across the service. So far, Labour has:

 Kickstarted recruitment of 13,000 more neighbourhood police

and PCSOs with £200 million of funding, as part of a £1 billion boost

to police funding.

 Announced new Respect Orders to give police and councils the

powers they need to crack down on repeated anti-social behaviour.

 Banned zombie knives and machetes.

 Launched a new coalition to tackle knife crime and stop young people

being dragged into gangs.

 Introduced new measures to tackle violence against women and girls.

• £200 million to recruit 13,000 more neighbourhood Police and PCSOs on the street
• Respect Orders introduced to tackle anti-social behaviour

 

Education

• Launched a Curriculum and Assessment Review to help improve schools in the East of England.
• Started the drive to recruit 6,500 teachers nationally, improving the East of England’s education system.
• Launched Skills England to transform opportunities in the East of England and drive growth.
• Scrapped single headline Ofsted grades in schools across the East of England in landmark school reform.
• Overhauled apprenticeships across the East of England through a new Growth and Skills Levy.
• Supported parents across the East of England by announcing the first stage of the government’s plan to deliver 3,000 school-based nurseries.
• Announced the Children’s Wellbeing bill which will remove barriers to opportunity and make sure the school system is fair for every child.
• Kickstarted the rollout of free breakfast clubs for all primary school children across the East of England through an early adopters scheme.

The Labour Government is delivering on its promise for free breakfast clubs
in every primary school in England, starting with 750 early adopter primary
schools from April 2025.
Breakfast clubs are proven to boost children’s attendance, attainment,
readiness to learn, wellbeing and behaviour. But, under the Conservatives,
just one in ten primary schools across England received any government
support to provide breakfast clubs.
Labour is making free breakfast clubs available for all primary children to give parents more choices with half an hour of free childcare before the school
day starts, saving families an estimated £450 a year, and helping close the
opportunity gap and boost life chances.
As promised, the Labour Government has also begun recruiting 6,500 extra
teachers, who will focus on subjects with shortages and those areas that have faced the biggest recruitment challenges.
The Government has also committed to investing £1.4 billion to rebuild
crumbling schools, with £1.8 billion also confirmed to support the expansion
of government-funded childcare.
Labour has unveiled plans to deliver 3,000 new school-based nurseries,
providing thousands of additional childcare places where they are needed
most, with the first round of funding launched for up to 300 school-based
nurseries.
To better support families during the crucial early years of a child’s
development, the Labour Government has set about strengthening
and joining up family services, including investing in Family Hubs and
Start for Life programmes.
Labour is investing to drive high and rising standards in early years and
schools. That includes extra early language support, rolling out Maths
Champions, and a boost to reading and writing skills that will benefit
thousands of pupils across England.
As well as raising school standards across the board, delivering high-quality
teaching and ensuring that no family is priced out of the support they need,
tackling child poverty is a top priority for the Labour Government.

 

We’ve set a clear target for 75% of five-year-olds starting school ready to

learn, so that every child is given the opportunity to succeed and thrive.

So far, Labour has:

 Announced £1.4 billion of investment to rebuild crumbling schools, and

£1.8 billion to support the expansion of government funded childcare.

 Began the rollout of free breakfast clubs for all primary school children,

with the first 750 primary schools to offer a new free breakfast club

from April, saving working families up to £450 a year.

 Launched the first round of funding for up to 300 school-based

nurseries, on the way to delivering 3,000 new nurseries.

 Set out an ambitious plan to fix the broken children’s social care

market and ensure that the system is working effectively for vulnerable

children and their families.

 Launched a cross-departmental Child Poverty Taskforce to give all

children the best start in life.

 

Cost of living

• Launched the Warm Homes Plan to deliver lower energy bills for the East of England and lift over one million households out of fuel poverty.
• Established the Child Poverty Taskforce, working across government departments to tackle child poverty.
• Working to drive up Pension Credit applications across the East of England.
• Extended the Household Support Fund across the East of England to support struggling households with bills and essential costs over winter.

 

Economy and employment

• Announced up to £800m in government funding will be made available to better connect rural areas and modernise broadband infrastructure, including in areas like Hertfordshire.
• Unveiled new measures to support small businesses in the East of England impacted by late payments.
• Scrapped the ban on onshore wind and unblocked solar schemes to deliver lower bills and good jobs across the East of England.
• Announced improved employment rights for workers in the East of England, with a package of reforms that will Make Work Pay – including ending exploitative zero hour contracts, providing statutory sick pay from day one, and ending fire and rehire.
• Secured a record 131 new green infrastructure projects which will create jobs and drive growth in regions like the East of England.
• Announced a new National Wealth Fund to unlock private investment in regions like the East of England.
• Introduced a new Fiscal Lock Law to deliver economic stability in the East of England and protect family finances.
• Announced new Covid Corruption Commissioner to get back what is owed to people in the East of England.
• Launched landmark pensions review to support pensioners in the East of England.

As the Labour Government has already demonstrated, what Britain has been

lacking is political will and mission-led government. In less than a year, this

Labour Government has already achieved more than the previous government

managed in fourteen years, but we know that there is much more to do.

The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget took the tough but necessary decisions to put

the economy back on a sustainable footing, while prioritising vital investment in

our public services and infrastructure.

Labour has already delivered a pay rise worth £1,400 on average to more than

three million of the lowest-paid workers by raising the minimum wage, and

wages across the economy are growing at their fastest rate in three years.

Labour’s Employment Rights Bill will ban exploitative zero-hour contracts,

end fire and rehire practises, and provide several day-one rights whilst also

strengthening collective redundancy rights. This bill recognises that fairness,

equality and well-being are fundamental to a modern and thriving economy.

Labour’s first Business Investment Summit sent a clear message that Britain

is open for business, securing more than £63 billion of private investment and

creating more than 38,000 jobs, and in January of this year the Chancellor

made it clear that no stone would remain unturned in the pursuit of growth.

Labour has acted where the Tories failed by launching a modern

industrial strategy to power a range of high growth sectors from advanced

manufacturing to digital industries and expanded opportunities for small

and medium-sized businesses. We have also launched Skills England to

provide businesses with the skills they need to thrive.

As part of Labour’s commitment to build 1.5 million homes by the end of this

Parliament, planning guidance has been overhauled and more than £5 billion

allocated for housebuilding in this year’s budget.

This is alongside long-overdue reforms to Right to Buy to protect social

housing stock, and the launch of the independent New Towns Taskforce

to create large-scale communities of at least 10,000 homes each.

This is the difference that Labour in government makes.

For the first time in more than 14 years, we are operating this NPF cycle with the

Labour Party in government, and our work must reflect the ambitions of this

mission-led government. That means developing policy that builds on the work

that Labour has already done while looking to the future in our ambition for a

decade of national renewal.

 

The core mission of this Labour government is to grow the economy to

ensure that working people have more money in their pocket, as we aim

to deliver the fastest growth in the G7. So far, this Labour government has:

 Delivered a budget to fix the foundations and protect working

people’s payslips.

 Increased the minimum wage for over 3 million workers,

worth up £1,400 a year.

 Protected the triple lock on pensions, with the state pension increasing

by up to £1,900 over this parliament.

 Secured more than £63 billion of private investment, creating more

than 38,000 jobs.

 Unveiled our plan to Make Work Pay to abolish fire and rehire, boost

statutory sick pay, and deliver vital protections in the workplace.

 Announced small business support worth £2.4 billion as we set

out a pathway to permanently lower tax rates on the high street.

 Established a National Wealth Fund to mobilise private investment

and turbocharge economic growth, which has already created nearly

9,000 jobs.

 Made Britain the second-best place in the world to invest.

• UK average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses, rose by 5.9% in the last three months of 2024 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to the ONShttps://x.com/SkyNews/status/1891749921381880032
• The biggest ever cash boost to the minimum wage with a new National Living Wage of £12.21, and a new National Minimum Wage of £10.00 per hour from April. Over 3 million workers in shops, restaurants and workplaces across the UK are set to receive a significant pay boost from April – putting thousands of pounds back in the pockets of working people every year. As a result of these changes, a further 4 million workers could benefit from the positive spill-over impacts of the rate increases.   Announced at last year’s Budget, the 6.7% increase to the National Living Wage which will be worth £1,400 a year for an eligible full-time worker is a significant step towards delivering the manifesto commitment to deliver a genuine living wage:  https://www.gov.uk/government/news/april-pay-rise-set-to-boost-pockets-of-over-3-million-workers#

• Making Work Pay Legislation currently going though Parliament
• Cutting red tape so 10,000 more apprentices can secure their qualification this year.

Environment

• Launched a new Floods Resilience Taskforce to turbocharge flood preparedness in the East of England and support delivery of flood defences.
• Delivered new measures to penalise water bosses who pollute waters in the East of England.
• Announced a new deal for farmers, which will go further to support farmers in the East of England, boosting rural economic growth and strengthening Britain’s food security.

• Investment of £1.6 Billion to tackle 7 million more potholes this year.

Defence and National Security and Resilience

• Launched a new Armed Forces Commissioner who will be a strong, independent champion to improve life for UK service personnel across the East of England and their families.
• Awarded our armed forces the largest pay increase in decades which will renew the nation’s contract with those who serve from the East of England.

Labour has immediately set to work on fixing the foundation of national security

and delivering for defence, with targeted action right across government. This is

led by the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War,

with a commitment to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence from April 2027.

The Labour Government is conducting a Strategic Defence Review at pace to

understand the threats we face and the capabilities our Armed Forces need,

and has launched a Defence Industrial Strategy to ensure defence is an engine

for jobs and growth across the UK.

Our mission to reconnect Britain with global friends and partners is fully

underway, including a reset on our approach to the Global South that

prioritises partnerships.

We are working more closely with European partners on security and defence,

including a landmark agreement with Germany that will boost industry and

jobs here in the UK.

We are demonstrating our unshakeable commitment to NATO with a leading

role in new NATO exercises, and stepping up support for Ukraine by increasing

our defence spending alongside European partners.

And we are renewing our contract with those that serve, securing the largest

pay rise for service personnel in over 20 years, legislating for an Armed Forces

Commissioner to improve life for service personnel, and bringing 36,000

military houses back into public ownership.

These are vital steps towards delivering a decade of national renewal. But to

ensure we are secure at home and strong abroad, we need to fully understand

the full range of the threats we are facing, and the impact that global events

are having here in the UK.

We must build a national security framework that is ft for purpose for the

unstable times ahead, learns the lessons of the recent past and fxes the

failures we inherited from the Conservatives.

This is on top of our unwavering commitment to securing our borders.

The Tories broke our immigration system with net migration at record levels

and dangerous criminal smuggling gangs costing lives and undermining

security. Labour has already started the work to crack down on these vile

gangs and restore order to the asylum and immigration systems.

Given the pace and scale of changes in the international system, our approach

must be responsive and agile, working across government in coordination with

our goals.

We understand that no policy commitment matters unless we uphold

the first duty of any government: to keep the country safe. This Labour

Government is already delivering on national security by:

 Increasing defence spending to 2.5% of GDP from April 2027. This is an

£13.4 billion increase in cash terms from what we spend today and the

biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.

We will also set an ambition to reach 3% in the next parliament, as

economic and fiscal conditions allow.

 Launching a first of its kind Strategic Defence Review.

 Signing the landmark Trinity House Agreement with Germany

 Continuing Britain’s proud tradition of leadership in NATO and

demonstrating this government’s unshakeable commitment to

the Alliance.

 

Energy

Within the first 72 hours of government, this Labour Government lifted

the Conservatives’ onshore wind ban, harnessing our natural resources to

protect our energy independence. This Government then went on to secure

a record-breaking 131 renewable energy projects through the latest auction,

enough to power more than 10 million homes.

Great British Energy – our publicly-owned clean energy company –

has been launched and is already working to generate vital investment

in clean, secure and homegrown power. This has already been evidenced

by a multibillion-pound agreement between GB Energy and the Crown Estate

to unleash vital investment and protect Britain’s energy security. Alongside

this work, the Government has also announced the creation of a Marine

Recovery Fund to deliver strategic and co-ordinated environmental

compensation measures.

This work comes alongside the creation of a new National Wealth Fund to

drive low carbon investment into key renewable sectors, and £22 billion of

funding to create an entirely new industry in the UK with carbon capture and

Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage (CCUS) enabled hydrogen products.

This will breathe new life into Britain’s former industrial heartlands and

create tens of thousands of jobs across the North over the next decade.

This Government has also recognised the link between the acceleration to

net zero and the opportunity to improve living standards, with new legislation

to ensure that private and social rental properties meet minimum energy

effciency standards alongside funding to roll out energy efficiency upgrades

across the country.

Labour has also taken immediate action to clean up our waterways,

with legislation to put failing water companies under special measures.

This consultation seeks to build on the work that this Labour Government

has already done, to recognise the challenges to our ambitious Plan for

Change Milestone, and to ensure that the Government is supported as it

works to decarbonise our energy sector and boost Britain’s energy security.

Over the course of these consultation sessions, the commission will develop a

policy platform that supports the Government in its mission to deliver a decade

of national renewal and drive down bills for people across the country.

 

Under the previous Conservative government, Britain was left exposed to

volatile energy market shocks and the whims of dictators abroad. Under

Labour’s Plan for Change, Britain will be a world-leader for Clean Power,

creating good jobs, lowering bills for good and boosting economic growth.

So far, Labour has:

 Ended the nine-year onshore wind ban within the first 72 hours of

government and secured a record-breaking 131 renewable energy

projects through the latest auction.

 Set up the new independent National Energy System Operator,

to ensure power supply meets demand.

 Launched Great British Energy and announced investment worth

£22 billion to make the UK an early leader in carbon capture.

 Set out a plan to unblock the electricity grid

and build vital infrastructure.

 Announced new reforms to fire up nuclear power

and deliver cleaner energy.

 Signed the first major partnership between Great British Energy and

the Crown Estate, unleashing billions of pounds worth of investment

in clean energy.

• Ofgem have said the 2025/26 energy cap would be £190 cheaper compared with January 2024 and 57% less than in January 2023, during the energy crisis: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2024/nov/22/average-annual-energy-bill-rise-to-great-britain-january-enegry-price-cap-ofgem
• Great British Energy launched to help us secure Energy Independence as a country and to reduce bills and tackle climate change and flooding – see more below

 

Housebuilding and Planning Policy

• Banned no-fault evictions and introduced new protections for renters in the East of England.
• Delivered planning reform in the East of England to build the homes we need.
• Announced ‘Homes for Heroes’ – a programme to ensure all UK Armed Forces Veterans as well as domestic abuse survivors and care leavers in the East of England have a roof over their head.

 

Britain is currently facing an acute housing crisis, with the dream of

home ownership becoming a distant dream for too many working

people. The failure to build has also left Britain lagging when it comes

to key infrastructure.

In just 7 months, Labour has:

 Overhauled the planning system to get Britain building, publishing

a new National Planning Policy Framework within weeks of entering

government to make local housing targets mandatory.

 Announced new measures to back the builders, not the blockers,

and prevent spurious legal claims from preventing the construction

of vital infrastructure.

 Unveiled a new Planning and Infrastructure Bill to streamline

and accelerate delivery of new homes and infrastructure.

 Created planning passports, meaning that any proposals that

meet high standards and design quality will be sped through the

planning process.

 Introduced long-overdue reforms to Right to Buy to protect and boost

social housing stock.

 Committed to more than £5 billion to housing supply, including

funding to transform neglected land into new homes.

• Ten New Towns now promised started by 2029
• £300 Million on more social and affordable homes this year.

 

 

The Tories presided over 14 years of decline, undermined our public services, and wrecked our economy. Keir Starmer’s Labour Government is getting on with the job, fixing the foundations of our country and delivering the long-term change Britain needs.

This is just the start!