What has Labour announced in its first week since sweeping to power?
It’s been a busy first week for Labour, with a raft of announcements including plans to tackle prison overcrowding, get people back into work and build 1.5 million new homes.Wind is a key engine of change for Labour, who believe it will help the UK economy grow. The new government has promised big steps - doubling onshore and quadrupling offshore turbines by 2030.
The plans will rely significantly on private housebuilders. While they may have the capacity, the market conditions and commercial justification will have to suit them. Questions have already been raised about whether a sufficiently skilled workforce is available. And strap yourselves in for some battles at local level when council planning committees face potentially stiff opposition from residents.
If the new government is to achieve its aim of getting waiting times back on track, a clear plan and signs of progress will need to follow quickly.one-on-one meeting with US President Joe Biden The number of people who are economically inactive due to ill health has risen by 700,000 since the pandemic, to 2.8 million. The government’s big idea to tackle rising levels of worklessness is to create a new national jobs and career service. It would be based in job centres, but with local areas able to tailor the scheme depending on their own employment needs.
The one diplomatic mistake of Labour’s first week was its failure to inform the Rwandan government before announcing the end of the joint migration policy, which angered Kigali.
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