Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Change is a political manifesto published in 2024 by the British Labour Party under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer. The manifesto sets out the party's new approach to policy, ahead of their successful campaign in the 2024 general election, in which they won a landslide victory. [1] [2]
This is a list of the British Labour Party general election manifestos since the nascent party first fielded candidates at the 1900 general election.. From its foundation, general election manifestos were issued for the Labour Party as a whole, whereas the manifestos of the Conservative and Liberal parties generally took the form of a form of a short personal address by the leader of the party ...
The combined vote share for Labour and the Conservatives reached a record low, with smaller parties doing well. Labour returned to being the largest party in Scotland and remained so in Wales. The election was noted as the most disproportionate in modern British history, [2] mainly as a result of the first-past-the-post voting system.
Sir Keir did co-author a book in 1996 which argued, among other things, that it was difficult to justify removing a prisoner’s right to vote. The last Labour government said it was against votes ...
The publication of Labour’s manifesto on Thursday marks a significant moment in the General Election campaign, with the finer details of the two main parties’ promises to the voters now ...
The party plans to ensure economic stability, cut NHS waiting times and reform planning rules to build more than one million new homes.
On Tuesday, Sir Keir declined to rule out raising employers’ contributions, saying Labour had been “very clear in the manifesto that we wouldn’t be increasing tax on working people”.
Tobias Phibbs of the Common Good Foundation and Blue Labour praised the speech, saying that "across Europe, social democrats are leading the way in reasserting a world of nation-states and borders" and that "ending the deliberate policy of mass immigration is a rejection of the free market lie that human beings are fungible units that can pass undifferentiated across the smooth surface of the ...