Next PM has chance to transform the country, says UNISON

Commenting on the resignation today (Monday) of Sir Keir Starmer as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, UNISON general secretary Andrea Egan said: 

“The next prime minister has an opportunity to break with tinkering-around-the-edges and deliver a complete transformation of this country, permanently shifting wealth and power to working class people.

“That means full implementation of the plan to Make Work Pay, a massive programme of public investment and insourcing to repair our public services, and national public ownership of utilities.

“Schools, hospitals, councils and transport – and the public service heroes working in them, keeping our country running – must be the fiscal priority, not the military and foreign wars.

“Breaking with the failed approach of the current Labour government also requires standing up to the migrant-bashing of the far-right rather than imitating it.

“If the next Labour leader doesn’t enact this kind of generational programme, the consequences will be dire for us all, as Farage and his failed-Tory cronies wait in the wings.”

Notes to editors:
– UNISON is the UK’s largest union with more than 1.3 million members providing public services in education, local government, the NHS, police service and energy. They are employed in the public, voluntary and private sectors.