Angela Rayner has warned Keir Starmer he must urgently change direction.
“What we are doing isn’t working and it needs to change. This might be our last chance.”
In what looks like a manifesto for a leadership bid including proposing faster planning reform, more public ownership and a programme to get young people into work.
In a signal to markets she says this can be done within the fiscal rules.
Rayner says it was a mistake to block Burnham in comments that will be seen as support for the Mayor of Greater Manchester if she does not stand in any future contest
“The Prime Minister must now meet the moment and set out the change our country needs.”
She criticised the party saying that Peter Mandelson scandal showed a toxic culture of cronyism.
“Decisions like cutting winter fuel allowance just weren’t what people expected from a Labour government.” she added
“We are in danger of becoming a party of the well-off, not working people.”
“Labour exists to make working people better off. That is not happening fast enough and it needs to change – now.”
Rayner added that many good Labour colleagues have lost their seats despite working hard for those they represented. We have lost good Labour administrations and lost the chance for more.
“For too long, successive governments have allowed wealth and power to concentrate at the top without a plan to ensure the benefits of economic growth are shared fairly. The result is an economy that does not work for the majority, with wealth concentrated in too few hands. This level of inequality, alongside squeezed living standards, is the outcome of a model built on deregulation, privatisation, and trickle-down economics.”
