![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/labour-must-back-peoples-priorities-and-ditch-baggage-to-win-says-keir-starmer/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_MAINSOCIAL-14.jpg&description=Speaking at the party's National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must 'learn the lessons' from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge Labour must share its priorities with working people - and ditch 'baggage' policies if they want to win power, Keir Starmer has warned. Speaking at the party's National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must 'learn the lessons' from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge. said there was "something very wrong" when a party policy was on "each and every Tory leaflet" following attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan's plan to expand the capital's ultra low emission zone (Ulez), which applies a charge for older and more polluting road vehicles. After using the divisive policy to cling on to Boris Johnson 's former seat in an otherwise dismal night for the Tories, Rishi Sunak is under pressure to focus on similar 'wedge issues' in the run up to the next election. Labour officials were expected to argue until the early hours of this morning (SUN), as they hammered out a blueprint for the party's election manifesto - with a string of such issues on the agenda. Plans to make free school meals universal and scrap the two-child benefit cap - both of which are hugely popular with party members - have been ditched by Labour because of cost. And speaking before Mr Starmer's speech to the forum yesterday, Danny Beales, the defeated Labour candidate in Boris Johnson's former seat, branded Ulez a 'bad policy'. 'A single policy cut us off at the knees,' he said. 'Ulez is a bad policy, it must be rethought.' And Mr Starmer said London Mayor Sadiq Khan should "reflect" on the expansion of Ulez, after new Tory MP Steve Tuckwell painted the vote as a referendum on the toll. But while Mr Khan's City Hall team is understood to be in 'constructive listening mode', sources defended the policy - and the party's performance in Uxbridge. A source close to the London Mayor said: 'Winning Uxbr){kind=link}
Speaking at the party’s National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must “learn the lessons” from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge
Labour must share its priorities with working people – and ditch “baggage” policies if they want to win power, Keir Starmer has warned.
Speaking at the party’s National Policy Forum in Nottingham, the Labour leader told officials they must “learn the lessons” from their narrow by-election defeat in Uxbridge.
said there was “something very wrong” when a party policy was on “each and every Tory leaflet” following attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan’s plan to expand the capital’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez), which applies a charge for older and more polluting road vehicles.
After using the divisive policy to cling on to Boris Johnson ‘s former seat in an otherwise dismal night for the Tories, Rishi Sunak is under pressure to focus on similar “wedge issues” in the run up to the next election.