Crawley residents £1,800 worse off under the Conservatives

Wages in Crawley are 5% lower than when Tories came to power.

New analysis from Labour reveals the Tories’ utter failure to grow the economy and to level up Britain, with figures showing that in every region in Great Britain real wages are lower now than when the Tories came to power in 2010, with wages in Crawley falling by £1,800.

A crucial component of getting wages up and improving living standards is growing the economy, something that has stalled under the Tories.

If the economy had continued to grow at the same rate as it had been with the last Labour government, then there would be £30 billion more to spend on public services without having to raise a single tax.

Instead, following one ideologically-driven experiment after another by the Conservative Party, the average UK household standard of living has fallen 20% below that of the average Slovenian household and is set to drop below the average standard of families in Poland by the end of the decade. The direct result of decisions taken by our Conservative Government.

We have been utterly failed by the Conservative Party, a party more interested in feathering their own nest than improving the living standards of the people who voted for them. With the cost of living crisis set to get even worse in the weeks and months ahead, there is no sign of any improvement under Rishi Sunak.

It is only with a return to real growth, focused on increasing prosperity for the whole country, that we can reverse the decline and put the UK genuinely back on course. Labour has a plan to stabilise our economy and get it growing through our Green Prosperity Plan and an active partnership with British businesses, delivering the jobs of the future to communities such as Crawley.