On the Tories’ watch… 📉 Homeownership rates have plummeted ⬆️ Mortgage payments have gone through the roof after they crashed the economy 🏚️ Michael Gove and Rishi Sunak’s capitulation to their own backbenchers is pushing housebuilding off a cliff 👇 https://t.co/hJvAR8fmJn
Labour is proudly the party of homeownership. We’ve set out a comprehensive plan to target a homeownership rate of 70%, including a state-backed mortgage insurance scheme, plus plans to build more affordable and social homes and give greater rights and protections to renters 🌹
This takes some brass neck when you’ve been in power for 13 years. Who does he think broke it? https://t.co/Maha1guoMT
Talking about a book is much easier than writing one 📕 Really enjoyed popping into @Hudd_Lit_Fest to talk about ‘All In’ and how together we can build a country that works 🌹 ➡️ https://t.co/XOt8fbbHUP https://t.co/CpnM2U8UoI
Instead of yet more outlandish promises, what our asylum system really needs is a Home Secretary that just does her actual job. #bbclaurak https://t.co/EY0lPCUUmA
2022 was a record year for North Sea oil and gas profits. If Labour was in government right now, we’d be using a proper windfall tax on those profits to fund a Council Tax freeze this year. Government is about choices. A Labour government will make fairer choices 🌹 https://t.co/xcVt2WURON
Young people are being failed online, on our streets and in their homes. For decades there have been calls for a legal duty on people working with children to report concerns about abuse, and yet all we have from the Home Secretary today is a commitment to a consultation. https://t.co/70eL8ElERL
It also encapsulates the problem with the Tories’ broken Hunger Games-style system, where communities have to go cap-in-hand to Whitehall. @UKLabour will put communities in control of their own destiny so local leaders are no longer reliant on a begging bowl in Westminster 🌹
We learned this week that just 8% of the government’s flagship Levelling Up Fund has been spent more than two years after it was announced. That means that on current trends, it will take another 2️⃣5️⃣ years for it to be delivered in full… https://t.co/eKQQQMnWzX
It sums this Government up that they can get their act together to deliver tax cuts for the 1 per cent, but when it comes to investment in our town centres, local transport or decent housing, the rest of us just have to wait.