Living standards must be top priority for new PM - TUC

Commenting on Andy Burnham’s speech in Manchester, TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak said: 

“The new prime minister must have a laser focus on living standards. Today's commitment to backing British industry, creating and securing good jobs in every corner of the country and improving skills needs to be delivered at pace.

“Change is badly needed. Despite the progress since July 2024, over the last decade and a half working people have had their pay packets hammered, Tory deindustrialisation has gutted our industrial heartlands and insecure work has exploded.  

“Now we need to see an ambitious programme for the first 100 days of government that delivers good secure jobs, action on energy bills and steps towards a fairer tax system.

“This needs to be a reset moment for British politics. The public wants a government that is bold, willing to fight for them and ready to take on vested interests who have done well from the broken status quo like bad bosses, the super wealthy and social media and crypto billionaires.”

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