‘Now is our moment’ says Rayner as she promises ‘better Britain’ at conference

The Deputy Prime Minister has told the Labour league “now is our moment” arsenic she pledged to bolster workers rights, make precocious prime homes and fortify communities.

Ms Rayner, who is besides the Housing and Local Government Secretary, outlined her department’s priorities successful Government successful her opening code to the Conference delegation successful Liverpool.

She described the Government’s Employment Rights Bill, which volition look Parliament adjacent month, arsenic “historic legislation” that volition “make enactment much secure” and “ensure rights are enforced and commercialized unions strengthened”.

Conference, this is our Plan to Make Work Pay - coming to a workplace adjacent you

Angela Rayner

She said: “That means repealing the Tories’ anti-worker laws and caller rights for national reps too.

“A genuine surviving wage and sick wage for the lowest earners. Banning exploitative zero hr contracts and unpaid internships. Ending occurrence and rehire and we volition bring successful basal rights from time 1 connected the job.

“Conference, this is our Plan to Make Work Pay – coming to a workplace adjacent you.”

She vowed to “rebalance” the tenant-landlord relationship, and described moving connected the Grenfell enquiry arsenic “the astir sobering moment” of her career.

She told delegates: “Our renters’ measure volition rebalance the narration betwixt tenant and landlord and extremity nary responsibility evictions – for good.

“Our semipermanent program volition escaped leaseholders from the tyranny of a medieval system.

“And a cross-government taskforce volition enactment Britain backmost connected way to ending homelessness.

“Whether you’re a leaseholder, a tenant, a home-buyer oregon without determination to unrecorded – this Government is connected your side.”

She added: “It is wholly unacceptable that we person thousands of buildings inactive wrapped successful unsafe cladding 7 years aft Grenfell.

“And that’s wherefore we volition bring guardant a caller remediation enactment program this autumn to velocity up the process and we’ll prosecute those liable – without fearfulness oregon favour.

“This indispensable pb to new, safer societal lodging for the future.

“Under the Tories, caller societal lodging plummeted. We volition reverse that tide with an ambition to physique much societal homes than we lose, wrong the archetypal fiscal twelvemonth of this Labour Government.”

The Housing Secretary further pledged to instrumentality Awabs instrumentality successful the societal rented assemblage successful the autumn and to widen it to the backstage rented sector.

Awaab’s instrumentality is named aft two-year-old Awaab Ishak, who died arsenic a nonstop effect of vulnerability to mould successful the societal location his household rented successful Rochdale.

Labour estimates it would enactment tenants successful 746,000 homes with reported superior hazards to unafraid faster repairs, reducing wellness and information risks.

Finally Ms Rayner outlined further plans for the “devolution revolution” arsenic she pledged to extremity “northerners being dictated to by Whitehall”.

She said: “Keir and I are determined to extremity this ‘Whitehall knows best’ attack and spot those with tegument successful the game.

“The past Labour Government created the London Mayor, the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Senedd and the Northern Ireland Assembly.

I find myself erstwhile again with an accidental to service those radical who ne'er gave up connected me. On the 4th of July, the radical entrusted america with the task of alteration and anticipation won. Now is our moment, not conscionable to say, but to do

Angela Rayner

“We volition prehend this infinitesimal and yet implicit that irreversible displacement successful opportunity, powerfulness and wealthiness crossed our full country.

“It’s however we tin present real, sustained alteration for each portion and Labour mayors person already proven it.

“Buses nether section power successful Greater Manchester, £2 fares successful West Yorkshire, Oxford Street regeneration successful London, publicly-owned artillery trains successful Liverpool and opportunities for unemployed young radical successful the West Midlands.

“Labour mayors person shown what is imaginable erstwhile Labour is successful powerfulness and that’s wherefore I americium giving mayors much powers implicit location gathering and planning, arsenic good arsenic transport and skills.

“A caller White Paper volition representation retired however we volition determination powerfulness retired of Whitehall.”

The Deputy Prime Minister concluded her code talking astir her erstwhile occupation successful attraction and with a telephone to enactment for the conference.

She said: “Retired professors, teachers, nurses, constabulary officers, they needed my attraction successful the past years and days of their life, attraction that they deserved. Care that was my honour to provide.

“I find myself erstwhile again with an accidental to service those radical who ne'er gave up connected me. On the 4th of July, the radical entrusted america with the task of alteration and anticipation won. Now is our moment, not conscionable to say, but to do.

“Labour governments of the past took connected this aforesaid situation astatine a clip erstwhile Britain desperately needed change. They deserved a amended Britain, erstwhile the likelihood were stacked against them, and that’s precisely what this Labour authorities indispensable present erstwhile again, so, conference, let’s go.”