The Wakefield by-election proves our country is crying out for change and Labour can deliver - Rachel Reeves...
In recent weeks, I’ve had an overwhelmingly number of emails from constituents contacting me about delays and problems renewing their passports.
Along with hours and hours of waiting in airports and long snaking queues at Dover, passport delays are just another symptom of the Tory Backlog Britain we are living through.Waiting times for A&E, cancer, dentistry and mental health services are getting longer and longer. Last week, I visited Leeds General Infirmary with Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, to hear about progress on the new hospital development which the Government had promised them.
If we were still growing at the same rate as under the last Labour government, we’d have £50bn more to spend on our public services without having to raise a single tax – and people would on average be earning £11,000 a year more. And it means helping our high streets back on their feet, with an immediate cut in business rates over the next year funded by a one-off increase in the digital services tax for online giants.
The result was the best we have had in the constituency for more than 20 years – and only the second time we have won a by-election from opposition in a quarter of a century. That didn’t happen by accident.
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