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Published November 24, 2024 11:40am Updated November 24, 2024 11:41am
Less than 200 days aft this July’s General Election, an online petition has surpassed 500,000 signatures to telephone different one.
The government is required to respond to each petitions which person much than 10,000 signatures – and Parliament volition see it for statement if it gets implicit 100,000.
The creator of the petition, Michael Westwood, kept his plea simple: ‘I would similar determination to beryllium different General Election.
‘I judge the existent Labour Government person gone backmost connected the promises they laid retired successful the pb up to the past election.’
And it seems to person garnered ample levels of support. In July, Labour acceptable retired six cardinal things they planned to bash erstwhile successful office.
They ranged from keeping ‘taxes, ostentation and mortgages arsenic debased arsenic possible’ to cutting NHS hold times.
Last month, Metro spoke to Labour’s Employment Minister, who defended the government’s large caller propulsion for employment rights aft it emerged it would not beryllium implemented until 2026.
In an exclusive interrogation with Metro, Employment Minister Alison McGovern said: ‘There are things successful present that I and galore different politicians, really of antithetic parties, person been trying to bash for a agelong time.’
Responding to the criticism, she said the Bill volition ‘have a agelong play successful parliament to get done each of those legislative stages’ and that the authorities would enactment with bodies including the FSB during the process.
What did Labour committedness to bash if elected?
Labour laid retired six cardinal points they hoped to deliver.
Economy: “Deliver economical stableness with pugnacious spending rules, truthful we tin turn our system and support taxes, ostentation and mortgages arsenic debased arsenic possible.”
Healthcare: “Cut NHS waiting times with 40,000 much appointments each week, during evenings and weekends, paid for by cracking down connected taxation avoidance and non-dom loopholes.”
Borders: “Launch a caller Border Security Command with hundreds of caller specializer investigators and usage counter-terror powers to smash the transgression vessel gangs.”
Energy: “Set up Great British Energy, a publically owned cleanable powerfulness company, to chopped bills for bully and boost vigor security, paid for by a windfall taxation connected lipid and state giants.”
Crime: “Crack down connected antisocial behaviour with much neighbourhood constabulary paid for by ending wasteful contracts, pugnacious caller penalties for offenders, and a caller web of younker hubs.”
Education: “Recruit 6,500 caller teachers successful cardinal subjects to hole children for life, enactment and the future, paid for by ending taxation breaks for backstage schools.”
Labour has already seen immoderate backlash successful their little clip successful office, with the astir caller being the farmer’s protestation successful Westminster past week.
During past month’s Budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a bid of changes which would force household farms worthy implicit £1 million to wage a caller 20 per cent levy connected their land.
Thousands of farmers took to the streets successful Westminster, protesting against it and chanting ‘Keir Starmer the husbandman harmer’.
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