Anneliese Dodds
(Picture: PA Wire)Labour’s new policy review will consider “record sums” for cycling and green jobs in an echo of Sadiq Khan’s plans for London, new party chairwoman Anneliese Dodds said today.
Speaking to the Standard ahead of Sir Keir Starmer’s launch of his roadmap to the 2024 manifesto, she paid tribute to the Mayor of London’s “practical” and election-winning ideas.
“Sadiq is showing exactly how we can harness the challenges of the climate crisis and turn them into opportunities,” she said. “Making communities better places to live, work and play in, and supporting employment.”
Ms Dodds and Sir Keir were travelling to Airbus in Bristol to set out their Stronger Together policy-building project based on six themes they believe will be key to the next general election, including the environment.
“The roadmap will be focused on practical policies - just like those Sadiq has been putting in place in London,” she said. “He’s invested record sums in walking, cycling and public transport, and worked with businesses and other organisations to support new green jobs.
“And he’s supported exciting projects to improve green spaces in every borough.”
Labour would be “taking on the challenges of the climate crisis, not ducking them like the Conservatives”, she claimed.
The roadmap project is designed to give voters a clearer idea of what the party stands for, following disappointing election results outside London in May
Sir Keir vowed to “harness the spirit” shown by the British people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
“When the pandemic hit Britain was too divided,” he said. “We were too fractured as a country after a decade of the Conservatives. That meant we weren’t as well prepared as we could have been, so the pandemic hit us harder.
“But the way the British people responded showed we can achieve incredible things when we come together.”
