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Richard
Burgon MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting on Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of
Prisons’ report on Birmingham prison which is published tomorrow, said:
“As
the evidence of the Conservative-created crisis in our prisons continues to
mount, the Queen’s Speech shows the Government has given up trying to sort out
their mess.
"The
Justice Secretary must deal with the epidemic of violence, drugs, overcrowding
and understaffing, which was left to fester over the election campaign. To help
get a grip of the situation, Labour would recruit 3,000 prisons officers.”
Angela Rayner MP,
Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education, commenting on the Social
Mobility Commission report, said:
“This report from
the Government’s own Social Mobility Commission shows that their policies will
not improve social mobility in Britain.
“School budgets are being
slashed, Sure Start Centres are being lost and there is nothing approaching a
skills plan that will let us face the challenges of post-Brexit Britain.
“Theresa May’s reckless
approach to our country’s future will see a generation of young people losing
out. The next Labour government will ensure that wealth, power and opportunity
are enjoyed by the many not the few.”
Labour has tabled an amendment to the Queen’s Speech, which will
be the first vote of the new Parliament, when voted on tomorrow (Wednesday),
and a test case for MPs’ approach to austerity.
After seven years of austerity, the amendment seeks to force the
government to end cuts to the police and fire service and lift the Public
Sector Pay Cap to give emergency and public service workers a pay rise.
Commenting on the amendment, Jeremy Corbyn, Leader of the Labour
Party, said:
“You can’t have safety and security on the cheap. It is plain to
see that seven years of cuts to our emergency services has made us less safe;
it’s time to make a change.
“Our emergency service workers make us proud at the worst of times
for our country, such as the Grenfell Tower Fire and the recent terrorist
attacks, and deserve the pay rise they have been denied for seven years.
“Conservative cuts have failed. Labour has a different approach,
which values those who look after us and will transform Britain for the many
not the few.”