Labour's 2025 Policy Priorities: Education, Workers' Rights, and Public Services
Labour's policy agenda for 2025 focuses on expanding support for children, improving education and early years services, enhancing workers' rights and wages, and investing in public services and infrastructure.
Child-focused measures include free breakfasts and cheaper school uniforms, with 500,000 more children eligible for free school meals in England. The abolition of the two-child limit is projected to lift about 550,000 UK-wide from poverty.
In education, the plan entails establishing 1,000 Best Start family hubs, providing nurseries for all, reviving Sure Start, restoring arts to the school curriculum, building 250 youth centres, creating new further education colleges, and expanding construction courses and apprenticeships.
Transport and energy policies involve renationalising railways, freezing rail and bus fares in England, and introducing pay-per-mile road pricing for all-electric cars by 2028.
Regarding workers' rights, the Employment Rights Act will be strengthened, zero-hours contracts restricted, and the UK minimum wage increased by 6.7% in the first year and 4.1% in the following April. Employers will also be required to contribute an additional £25 billion in national insurance.
Health and public services will see NHS funding increase with over 2,000 additional GPs and 170 new community diagnostic centres, contributing to reduced waiting times.
Housing and environmental plans include the Renters’ Rights Act, which protects 11 million private tenants from no-fault evictions, a target of 1.5 million new homes in England, and a £63 billion investment in green energy.
On migration and crime, net migration is expected to decrease by two-thirds, while small boat arrivals could rise. London's NOx air quality remains at legal limits, and crime in the capital is falling.
Internationally and locally, the UK will rejoin the Erasmus program, recognise Palestine, and see Wandsworth become the first Labour-controlled council since 1978. Additionally, refugee children will receive Christmas gifts.
Other priorities include the anticipated passage of right-to-die legislation for England and Wales.
