'Labour Doesn't Represent the Working People Anymore'

'Labour doesn't represent the working people anymore'

After 12 months of a Labour government, we asked people their views one year on from the landslide election

In search of Labour’s ‘working people’ – the paradox at the heart of Keir Starmer’s first year in power

Number 10/Flickr, CC BY-NC-NDIt’s one year since Keir Starmer led the Labour party to a landslide victory. Starmer’s manifesto, “Change” had proposed “securonomics” as a solution to the UK’s many crises. This was sold as a way of ensuring “sustained economic growth as the only route to improving the prosperity of our country and the living standards of working people”. The document mentioned “working people” a total of 21 times. It was clear thi…

A year of Labour: How has the Starmer government fared in helping people out of debt?

StepChange assesses how the Labour government is working to improve policy and outcomes on personal debt after its first year.