Labour MPs call on Starmer to focus on radical ideas to lower cost of living | Labour

The government should focus on more radical ideas to help daily costs such as food, energy, child care and housing in a letter to Keir Starmer of more than 100 workers’ deputies.

The warning comes in the midst of the fears that the Labor Party may lose the next election and its voters bleeding both reform and left to the left.

The letter launched the New Living Standards Group Group, which will lead eight of 2024 purchases. MPs from the group speaking with the Guardian, the government should change itself about voters, less talk about the growth in the G7, and more food costs, he said.

In order to combat threat to both leftist parties and reform labor, it aims to provide a series of ideas to bring daily costs to the government before autumn.

The letter is the last sign of a more activist parliamentary party, ready to push its ideas to 10 and the Treasury after prosperity this month.

In his founding statement, the living standards group said: “In the last year’s general elections, voters who made more transitions to us were fighting, and now he is struggling financially.

“If the income does not increase by the next general election, we will lose. As long as things stop, the average household will be poor The next election time. “

In his letter to Starmer, who reiterated the support for the Prime Minister and the government, 104 deputies said that there was a pleasant effort to increase income through industrial investments and changes in workers’ rights – but now there should be a great effort to reduce daily costs.

“Our components will ask a question in the next election: Did this worker government make me better?” he said.

“We have some of the highest electricity, housing and child care invoices in Europe. The reason for this is that we do not have enough social home, which we are dependent on natural gas for our strength, and could not invest in the child care that we need the last government… [living standards] It is the most important issue for our founders and our country. “

Four of the Treasury Election Committee and most of the group sitting in the swing seats, deputies, a renewed focus on living standards, said they would help to rebuild the belief among disappointed voters.

“This is not only about election difficulties, but also about our values, Dr said Dr Jeevun Sandher, the group’s meeting.

“Our workers’ values ​​are about to ensure that everyone makes a good life. The difference between us and the other party is how we help people reach there. So it is about both political focus and offering ideas. What more can we do to help people feel it?”

“The G7 is a little less about the G7,” he talks a little more about the food. “

Loughborough deputy Sandher said that 50% of the group’s economically insecure voters have been motivated by the survey that has quit supporting the Labor Party since last July.

“You have young graduate tenants who go to the greens because they see that their housing costs are really expensive. And they will reform people in post -industrial areas because they find it really expensive and they find it hard to find good work. And both sides are pulling the arm of ‘I want radical change’.

Sandher, the party’s energy bills, housing and daily costs, decisive and concrete progress should also record, he added. “I guess if we don’t have it, then I will not be re -elected. Let’s be honest,” he said.

The group said that he wanted to maintain a wide ideological composition in both new and for a long time with a significant variety of seats.

In addition to Sandher and Lewin, deputies in the organization committee include some of the most important new purchasing deputies such as Chris Curtis (Milton Keynes North), Lola Mcevoy (Darlington), Graeme Downie (Dunfermline and Dollar) and Yuan Yang (Earley and Woodley). Others Rachel Blake and Basingstoke Deputy Luke Murphy for the cities of London and Westminster.

Group plans policies, starting from energy bills next week and then follow children care and housing. He said that every policy would be progressive, that he will help both low and middle -class household peoples, to increase economic efficiency and increase growth and should be financed by independent or progressive taxation in terms of cost.

Yang said, “Even in the relatively rich election zone like mine, they have such deep deprivation pockets,” he said. “All working families in the income spectrum seem to be bored.”

Lewin said it was clear that many people think that they should see the speed of change much faster. “There is a concern there because things have been bad for the last 14 years. And even if we see a wage increase… We see that the savings rate has increased, which shows that people are a little more, but it holds it,” he said.

Mcevoy, who is co -chaired by the labor growth group Curtis, said that Bills and low wages cause great damage to the mental health of people. “A bill from the crisis is far away and has a great impact on mental health,” he said.

“It seems to be about expectations about what people think about their lives and that they are constantly vaccinating, but it seems to be unable to keep their heads on the water.”

Curtis said he believes that the focus will be a unifying force within the party with divisions on the strategy. “He did the survey as the biggest issue faced by voters for years. In the Labor Party, we may have all these arguments as to whether we need to look at the voters we need to care about reform or voters we have lost to others.

“But when you actually sit in front of that voter coalition and talk to these voters, they will all say that the biggest problem faced by their lives is the price of food in the shops.”