This week the government delivered the King’s Speech, outlining the legislation it plans to pass in the coming year. 

This could be a moment for real change harnessing the ambition of our young people, the innovative drive of our businesses, and the hope and optimism that exists around every kitchen table. 

But Rishi Sunak has no plan for the future. He doesn’t see this country like we do. His response to the worst cost of living crisis in memory is to ask people to give up their jobs and be prepared to fail, while his Home Secretary calls homelessness a “lifestyle choice” and his Energy Secretary introduces legislation that won’t cut a penny off energy bills. 

The Tories can’t fix the country because they’ve already failed. It’s time to turn the page on their legacy of stagnant growth, sky-rocketing mortgages, soaring prices for everyday necessities and crumbling schools and hospitals. 

Keir Starmer’s Labour Party offers a dynamic, mission-focused government that will kick off a decade of national renewal focused on the interests of working people. Our missions will mean economic growth, safer streets, cheaper homegrown British power, tearing down the barriers to opportunity and getting our NHS back on its feet. 

Unlike the Tories, we have a plan to get Britain its future back. 

First, we will get Britain building again with the biggest boost to social and council housing in a generation. We will build 1.5 million new homes built over five years with the infrastructure businesses, families and communities need.  

Step two of our plan is setting a new direction for skills. We will transform the further education system with Technical Excellence Colleges, more closely linked to local economies and offering opportunity on your doorstep. We’ll also turn the failed Apprenticeship Levy into a new Growth and Skills Levy to give businesses the flexibility they’re asking for to train their workforce. 

Finally, we will invest in British industry by establishing a National Wealth Fund to invest in battery gigafactories, clean steel plants and upgraded ports. Labour will introduce an active industrial strategy to grow these sectors and implement a British Jobs Bonus – creating 65,00 good jobs in clean energy by rewarding companies that create jobs and opportunities here in the UK. 

This is alongside our New Deal for Working People – banning the one-sided flexibility of zero-hour contracts, ending fire and rehire, giving worker basic rights from day one and strengthening trade union rights. It’s our plan to boost wages, make work more secure and support working people. 

Everything Labour sets out is on the foundation of economic responsibility. We saw the consequences of behaving recklessly with our economy during the disastrous Conservative mini-budget last year – with working people still paying the price. 

This is how we will achieve growth that works for everyone – with an economic model that turns its back on the failed Tory ideology that concentrates wealth and opportunity in the hands of a few. 

Instead, we will repair and revive our broken public services and provide a secure job, decent pay, a strong community and a home of your own. We will build growth from ordinary people for ordinary people. Infrastructure built more quickly, young people’s potential backed and the jobs of the future in places like Hounslow. That’s how we’ll get Britain’s future back.