Labour’s Five Missions for a Better Britain

It is now a year since the Labour Party set out its ‘Five Missions’ for what the party and its MPs will seek to deliver in office, and 12 months on it’s clear that they are needed now more than ever.

In February 2023, Keir Starmer, Labour Leader, set out five missions for how Labour would deliver for the British people in office. These were to:

• Secure the highest sustained growth in the G7, with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.
• Make Britain a clean energy superpower, to create jobs, cut bills and boost energy security with zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero.
• Build an NHS fit for the future, that is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.
• Make Britain’s streets safe, by halving serious violent crime and raising confidence in the police and criminal justice system to its highest levels.
• Break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage, for every child, by reforming the childcare and education systems, raising standards everywhere, and preparing young people for work and life.

A month earlier, Rishi Sunak had set out his ‘Five Priorities’ and asked that the British people hold him to account against them. A year on, BBC Verify–the BBC’s fact checking service–found that only one priority has been achieved, halving inflation which the Government had left to the Bank of England to achieve.

It’s understandable that after big promises and big failures by successive Conservative governments people feel let down and are shifting their support to Labour’s long-term plan.

Peter Lamb, Labour candidate for Crawley, commented:

“After 14 years of Conservative failure, hardworking people have been left far worse off. They feel the Government’s failures in their pay packets, they see it in the collapse of law of order, and they experience it in record waiting lists.”

“The Conservatives are out of touch, out of ideas and out of time. People in Crawley deserve a government which delivers long-term solutions, not short-term sticking plaster politics and Labour’s five missions will drive the improvements which will ensure everyone in every part of our country feels they are moving forward and life is getting better.”