• 7 months ago
Sir Keir Starmer pledged to prioritise the manufacturing industry if Labour wins the General Election on a visit to Lancashire. Mr Starmer met with employees at C&W Berry in Leyland on Friday afternoon where he discussed Labour’s plans to create 650,000 jobs across the country. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00 Labour have in the past said that they want to end the medieval leasehold.
00:05 I know people would like to hear you publicly commit to this
00:09 and if Labour get into power would you commit to bringing forward legislation
00:14 in the first King's Speech to enact all of the Law Commission recommendations
00:19 including grain rent caps?
00:20 Let me publicly re-commit to it then so that you've got that, you've got it on camera
00:24 and there's no ambiguity about it because we've long said that this
00:29 is a medieval way of doing business.
00:31 It bears down on people and it's very, very expensive.
00:34 So we have to end it.
00:36 Whether we can get it into the first King's Speech I don't know.
00:38 I don't want to promise you that.
00:39 We will do it as soon as we can and we may well be able to do it that quickly
00:43 but I'm well aware that if we are privileged enough to come into power to serve
00:48 there's some really big things we've got to fix on the economy
00:51 and on the health service etc.
00:53 and I just want to get on with the real priorities and actually further rights for people at work
01:00 is a really big priority.

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