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Keir We Go

As I write it is the Labour conference season, I should have been up in Liverpool this weekend watching key notes however with covid I ended up watching Deputy Leader Angela Rayner giving her address virtually. I was truly inspired by Rayner's key note speech. it is also this week that Angela Rayner gave a powerful performance at Prime Ministers Questions last Wednesday in which she gave the Prime Minister a grilling over care workers. 

She spoke about her childbirth and working in the care sector and how the party helped her. Labour truly is the party for social mobility, Labour governments have bought in the minimum wage act, introduced child tax credits, and introduced the human rights act which gave people basic rights in law. These things have helped people to unleash their potential and improve their lives. The state helping people should be celebrated and with a Labour state we can do this. 

Since our devastating loss last year we have been slowly rising in the opinion polls and this week we are now on equal footing with the Conservative Party at forty percent with Labour in the lead with plus three. Even more exciting Labour leader Keir Starmer is five points in the lead. We can not get complacent though we still have a long way to go to get back to Downing Street. 

When Jim Callaghan lost in 1979 it took eighteen long agonizing years to get back to power. and we have now been in opposition for ten years already since Gordon Brown lost we can't have a repeat of the eighties and the first seven years of the nineties. we should have made more ground in the last election but we lost a lot more seats and votes. 

Since the horrendous result last year there have been internal tensions between the different factions of the party. This will get us nowhere, we need to fully unite between Keir Starmer and unify as a team if we are to take power again. if we want to make more Angela Rayners then it is imperative that we get back into power.

Last year the country signaled to us in Labour that they didn't trust us to run the country we need to win that trust back. I was at the Nottingham leadership hustings and both Lisa Nandy and Rosena Allin-Khan gave inspiring speeches as to how they would do this. They are now Shadow Ministers in Starmer's cabinet. 

So as we in Labour slowly make our much needed comeback we need to reach out to current voters as well as people who have left the party, life long Labour voters who voted Conservative for the first time last year and young voters. At the same time we can't pigeon hole voters each person and vote is unique so we must reach out to individuals. When it is safe to do so again we need to knock on as many doors as we can and have thousands of conversations with people in every constituency in the country. 

Labour has given the country a lot in the past we can give even better in the future.


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