Labour’s last pledge standing – how long will it last?
JVL Introduction
According to a recent report in the Financial Times, the Labour Party is preparing a major rollback on workers’ rights, abandoning its pledges in its New Deal for Working People.
Angela Rayner denies it.
Here Labour peer John Hendy identifies the most fundamental of the proposals in the New Deal, to extend workers’ rights and restore trade union freedoms so that unions can effectively represent members, but going well beyond that.
He concludes:
Labour’s commitment to the New Deal for Working People and the personal endorsement of Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner to introduce the legislation to achieve it in the first 100 days of a Labour government is to be celebrated. There can be no retreat, and surely none is intended despite mischievous reports to the contrary.
This article was originally published by Tribune on Thu 24 Aug 2023. Read the original here.
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Angela Rayner is not the leader of the Labour Party and so her words of reassurance count for very little.
Doesn’t the failure to back recent industrial action against government/employer intransigence mean that the pledge is broken already?
I fear Sir Keir does not do “irony”…and I sense John Hendy is using it. Who knows? Watch and weep.
This genuinely reads like someone trying to justify being in an abusive relationship …. hanging onto the very last vestiges of hope …. by a thread …. quite surreal
Don’t hold your breath calmer renaged on to many commitments