The Scottish Labour leader and Record columnist say the party conference comes at a time of change at Westminster – with Truss taking over from Johnson – but the issues stay the same
When I take to the stage at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool today, it couldn’t be clearer that this country needs a change of government.
In the UK today, we have parents – particularly mothers – being forced to skip meals to feed their children. We also have families being forced to dig up their own gardens to grow food. For the last 12 years we’ve had a Tory Government which has actively sought to pit community against community. They wasted billions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash on dodgy contracts, vanity projects and giveaways to party donors.
Only Labour can build a coalition of the people across these islands to get rid of a party that puts billionaires before getting the basics right. But it isn’t enough that the Tories or the SNP deserve to lose – Labour needs to deserve to win. To boot the Tories out, Labour must bring all of those who are bearing the brunt of Tory misrule together. Across Britain there is a majority – of those who have borne the brunt of the politics of austerity and cuts, a majority of workers who are on the frontline of our economy from the pandemic to the current crisis, a majority of the people that can sweep the Tories from power.
Meanwhile, the Scottish Government has been breaking records for the worst A&E waiting times week after week, with 38,255 waiting more than 12 hours since the recovery plan was published. Last week we discovered that life expectancy has dropped again for a second year running.
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