{"id":19611,"date":"2019-12-04T15:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=19611"},"modified":"2020-11-12T12:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T12:54:51","slug":"labour-cost-of-living-save-6700","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=19611","title":{"rendered":"‘End rip-off Britain’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A future Labour government will tackle the skyrocketing cost of living with a package of fully-costed measures that will save families on average nearly \u00c2\u01417,000 each year.<\/p>\n

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In a pledge to \u00e2\u20ac\u015bend rip-off Britain\u00e2\u20ac\u0165, Labour published a\u00c2\u00a0analysis<\/a> on Wednesday (December 5) detailing how its policies will lift living standards for millions of people, including through substantial savings on rail, utilities, childcare, and other necessities whose costs have spiralled out of control in the last decade.<\/p>\n

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Labour estimates that families would each year save \u00c2\u0141364 on broadband, \u00c2\u0141108 on prescription charges, and \u00c2\u0141437 on free school meals by providing all of these services universally free. By nationalising key public goods, households will save \u00c2\u01412,194 each year on a pair of season rail tickets, \u00c2\u0141113 each year on their water bill and \u00c2\u0141559 on an annual dual-fuel energy bill.<\/p>\n

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For families with children, a future Labour government would significantly expand childcare by offering 30 free hours each week \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a pledge that will save households nearly \u00c2\u01413,000 each year.<\/p>\n

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Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shadow chancellor John McDonnell announced how the party in government would raise living standards in a speech on Wednesday (December 5).<\/p>\n

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In addition to the \u00c2\u01416,700 a year on average households will save on the cost of living under Labour, McDonnell highlighted how an immediate hike of the minimum wage to \u00c2\u014110 an hour would put an additional \u00c2\u01416,000 more in the pockets of more than 7m people.<\/p>\n

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The shadow chancellor explained how millions more would benefit from other Labour policies that will boost wages across the board.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bFor public sector workers, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a boost of 5 per cent in the first year of a Labour Government,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bFor others, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bringing in trade union bargaining across the economy, to raise wages everywhere. Ending bogus self-employment and investing across the UK in good, sustainable jobs in the industries of the future. A high-wage society is the building block of our vision for a better, more inclusive economy.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Addressing critics who have said Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans are unaffordable, McDonnell pointed out that every single one of the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s policies have been fully costed.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOf course these things need to be paid for,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bIn the Labour Party we know that: our members and supporters are the people who provide the care, who look after our young people, and who dispense those prescriptions. Of course they need paying for. But we believe in a fair society, we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t leave them to the market so those with the most can afford them while others can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why Labour has a fair approach to tax: raising income tax rates for the top 5% while closing loopholes and taxing income from wealth the same as that from work.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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He challenged voters to reject the Conservative consensus that a radical transformation of the economy, so that it works better for ordinary people, is not possible.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s understandable that confidence in the potential for a better future has been damaged by a Conservative political narrative that has undermined the hope that things can change,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bThat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why for those of us, who believe that real change is not only necessary but readily achievable, we need to spell out in detail how concretely, step by step that change can be brought about.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bWe have done that, through our Manifesto and our Grey Book,\u00e2\u20ac\u0165 McDonnell added. \u00e2\u20ac\u015bAnd I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be saying even more about that theme in the days ahead. So that before polling day people will know not just what we want to achieve.\u00c2\u00a0 But also just how we are going to achieve it.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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Unite general secretary Len McCluskey hailed Labour\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest analysis of the significant material difference a Labour government would make to the lives of millions of ordinary households.<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s clear through these commitments that only Labour will tackle poverty and inequality, only Labour will end the scandal of people depending on foodbanks to survive, only Labour will lift children and pensioners out of poverty, and only Labour will transform our economy so that it actually works for the many and not just the few.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n

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\u00e2\u20ac\u015bOnly Labour is on the side of working people. Unite members, come home to Labour.\u00e2\u20ac\u0165<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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