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

It’s important to set out what the government has done and the following text is produced from Labour Party National Briefing documents setting out factually what the government has delivered on.

Delivery so far:

NHS 

• Ended junior doctor strikes within the first three weeks of government, so that staff are back on the front line treating patients.
• Secured £400m investment to boost clinical trials, improving NHS services and driving growth.
• 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. We are recruiting 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.
• 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
• Funding 40,000 additional NHS appointments, scans, and operations weekly.
• Hospital waiting lists down for 4 months in a row. Waiting lists falling by almost 160,000 between July and December, and more than half a million extra diagnostic tests delivered.
• 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 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.
• 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.
• Announcing the rollout of 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments, delivering on Labour’s manifesto commitment.
• 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.
• Our Plan for Change has set the ambitious but achievable target of cutting waiting lists from 18 months to 18 weeks.
• 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 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.

Transport

• Public Ownership of Rail agreed by Parliament will improve rail services
• Ended train strikes delivering for passengers.
• Given communities more power over their local bus services.
• Investment of £1.6 Billion to tackle 7 million more potholes this year.

Cost of living 

• 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. As a 6.7% increase, this is 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. 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,  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#
• 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 ONS https://x.com/SkyNews/status/1891749921381880032
• Protected the triple lock on pensions, with the state pension increasing by up to £1,900 over this parliament.
• Working to drive up Pension Credit applications.
• State Pension to rise £470 in April 2025.
• Launched the Warm Homes Plan to deliver lower energy bills and lift over one million households out of fuel poverty.
• 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
• Established the Child Poverty Taskforce, working across government departments to tackle child poverty.
• Extended the Household Support Fund 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.
• Unveiled new measures to support small businesses impacted by late payments.
• Unveiled our plan to Make Work Pay. Labour’s Employment Rights Bill currently going though Parliament. These are improved employment rights for workers, with a package of reforms that will ban exploitative zero-hour contracts, end fire and rehire practises, and provide several day-one rights, such as  statutory sick pay, whilst also strengthening collective redundancy rights. The bill recognises that fairness, equality and well-being are fundamental to a modern and thriving economy.
• Introduced a new Fiscal Lock Law to deliver economic stability and protect family finances.
• Announced new Covid Corruption Commissioner to get back what is owed to people.
• Launched landmark pensions review to support pensioners.
• 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.
• Secured more than £63 billion of private investment, creating more than 38,000 jobs.
• 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.
• Cutting red tape so 10,000 more apprentices can secure their qualification this year.

Trade Policy 

• Britain is staying outside of the EU. But to seize opportunities ahead, the Government is seeking to make Brexit work. It will reset the relationship and seek to deepen ties with our European friends, neighbours and allies. That does not mean reopening the divisions of the past. There will be no plans to return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement
• Labour will work to improve the UK’s trade and investment relationship with the EU, by tearing down unnecessary barriers to trade. It will seek to negotiate a veterinary agreement to prevent unnecessary border checks and help tackle the cost of food; will help our touring artists; and secure a mutual recognition agreement for professional qualifications to help open up markets for UK service exporters.
• The Government is cautiously responding to the current rise in tariffs across the globe by seeking to not make any bad situation worse. This is a fast moving situation, where the danger of global recession is a risk so the aim will be to negotiate sensible trade deals.

Housebuilding and Planning Policy

• Banned no-fault evictions and introduced new protections for renters.
• 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, including funding to transform neglected land into new homes.
• Announced ‘Homes for Heroes’ – a programme to ensure all UK Armed Forces Veterans as well as domestic abuse survivors and care leavers have a roof over their head.
• Introduced long-overdue reforms to Right to Buy to protect and boost social housing stock.
• £300 Million on more social and affordable homes this year.
• Ten New Towns now promised started by 2029, with the launch of the independent New Towns Taskforce to create large-scale communities of at least 10,000 homes each.
• Unveiled a new Planning and Infrastructure Bill to streamline and accelerate delivery of new homes and infrastructure.
• 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.
• Created planning passports, meaning that any proposals that meet high standards and design quality will be sped through the planning process.

Crime and Justice

• Kickstarted a plan to restore neighbourhood policing.
• 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 and stop young people being dragged into gangs.
• 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.

Education

• 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.
• Launched a Curriculum and Assessment Review to help improve schools
• 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.
• Launched Skills England to transform opportunities to drive growth.
• Scrapped single headline Ofsted grades in schools in landmark school reform.
• Overhauled apprenticeships through a new Growth and Skills Levy.
• Announced the Children’s Wellbeing bill which will remove barriers to opportunity and make sure the school system is fair for every child.
• 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.
• 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,
• 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.
• Launched the first round of funding for up to 300 school-based nurseries, on the way to delivering 3,000 new 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.
• Launched a cross-departmental Child Poverty Taskforce to give all children the best start in life.
• 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.
• 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.

Environment

• Launched a new Floods Resilience Taskforce to turbocharge flood preparedness and support delivery of flood defences.
• Labour has taken immediate action to clean up our waterways, with legislation to put failing water companies under special measures and delivered new measures to penalise water bosses who pollute waters.
• Announced a new deal for farmers, which will go further to support farmers, boosting rural economic growth and strengthening Britain’s food security.

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 launched to help us secure Energy Independence as a country and to reduce bills and tackle climate change and flooding. Great British Energy – our publicly-owned clean energy company – 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, unleashing billions of pounds worth of investment in clean energy.
• 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 efficiency standards alongside funding to roll out energy efficiency upgrades across the country.
• Set up the new independent National Energy System Operator, to ensure power supply meets demand.
• 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.

Culture, Media and Sport 

• Labour is supporting children to study a creative or vocational subject until they are 16, and ensure accountability measures reflect this. We will get more children active by protecting time for physical education, and supporting the role grassroots clubs play in expanding access to sport.
• Labour will improve access to cultural assets by requiring publicly funded national museums and galleries to increase the loans they make from their collections to communities across the country. We will also launch a new National Music Education Network – a one-stop shop with information on courses and classes for parents, teachers and children.
• Access to music, drama and sport has become difficult and expensive because of ticket touting. Labour will put fans back at the heart of events by introducing new consumer protections on ticket resales.
• From the Men’s UEFA European Football Championship to the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup to the Invictus Games, Labour will deliver forthcoming international events with pride and seek new opportunities where we can, creating a legacy to inspire the next generation of talent while promoting exercise and healthy living.
• Labour is committed to making Britain the best place in the world to be a football fan. We will reform football governance to protect football clubs across our communities and to give fans a greater say in the way they are run. We will introduce a Football Governance Bill, which will establish an independent regulator to ensure financial sustainability of football clubs in England. We will never allow a closed league of select clubs to be siphoned off from the English football pyramid.

Democracy and Citizenship

• Labour will restore confidence in government and ensure ministers are held to the highest standards. We will establish a new independent Ethics and Integrity Commission, with its own independent Chair, to ensure probity in government.
• Labour will establish a new Modernisation Committee tasked with reforming House of Commons procedures, driving up standards, and improving working practices. The absence of rules on second jobs also means some constituents end up with MPs who spend more time on their second job, or lobbying for outside interests, than on representing them. Therefore, as an initial step, Labour will support an immediate ban on MPs from taking up paid advisory or consultancy roles.
• The next Labour government has brought about an immediate modernisation, by introducing legislation to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.  Whilst this action to modernise the House of Lords will be an improvement, Labour is committed to replacing the House of Lords with an alternative second chamber that is more representative of the regions and nations. Labour will consult on proposals, seeking the input of the British public on how politics can best serve them.
• To encourage participation in our democracy, Labour will improve voter registration and address the inconsistencies in voter ID rules that prevent legitimate voters from voting. For example, in the case of HM Armed Forces Veteran Cards.
• The Government will increase the engagement of young people in our vibrant democracy, by giving 16- and 17-year-olds the right to vote in all elections.
• We will protect democracy by strengthening the rules around donations to political parties.

Defence, National Security and Resilience

• Launched a new Armed Forces Commissioner who will be a strong, independent champion to improve life for UK service personnel and their families. We are renewing our contract with those that serve, securing the largest pay rise for service personnel in over 20 years and bringing 36,000 military houses back into public ownership.
• 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. 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.
• In view of the new threats we face as a  result of international events in recent years the government is having to commit to 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.  This is an £13.4 billion increase in cash terms from what we spend today. In view of the uncertainty the Government has set outs its view over the need to reach 3% in the next parliament, as economic and fiscal conditions allow.
• 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,
• The Government has an unshakeable commitment to NATO, of which the Attlee Government were a founder member, with a leading role in new NATO exercises, and stepping up support for Ukraine by increasing our defence spending alongside European partners.
• Signing the landmark Trinity House Agreement with Germany.
• Scrapped the wasteful Rwanda scheme and launched a Border Security Command to smash dangerous criminal smuggling gangs costing lives and undermining security and in doing so improve the UK’s border security. Labour has already started the work to crack down on these vile gangs and restore order, justice and fairness to the asylum and immigration systems.

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!