LABOUR’S left has set out an alternative Queen’s Speech to “build a fairer, healthier and greener country.”
The Socialist Campaign Group’s proposals, published to coincide with tomorrow’s state opening of Parliament, include an NHS reinstatement Bill to protect the public service, legislation to create a national care service and a real living wage Bill.
Backed by the group’s secretary Richard Burgon, fellow Labour MPs Bell Ribeiro-Addy, Ian Mearns and John McDonnell and Scottish peer Pauline Bryan, the proposals represent a re-evaluation of “what is most important to us” after the Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the trauma of a decade of austerity.