7 Things Labour Has Delivered This Week: 31st October
Here’s seven things Labour’s Plan for Change has delivered in England this week:
🏡 Labour’s transformational Renters’ Rights Bill has received Royal Assent and is now law. The Act will improve the lives of millions of renters across the country
✈️ Our £8 billion Typhoon export deal with Türkiye will deliver 20,000 skilled jobs and drive economic growth
🛑 We have carried out the biggest-ever crackdown on illegal working: last year, raids were up 51% and arrests up 63%
🏫 We've taken action to remove RAAC from classrooms, with 62 schools and colleges already fixed. And, we’ve set out the timeline for complete removal by the end of this Parliament
❌ A record 60,000 knives have been seized or surrendered under this Labour Government and knife crime has dropped for the first time in years – as part of our manifesto pledge to halve knife crime within a decade
💷 UK businesses will save over £400 million a year from April 2026 with new support to slash industrial electricity costs
💊 The morning-after pill will now be available free of charge on the NHS from pharmacies - this is biggest change to sexual health services since the 1960s and a major advance for women’s reproductive health