Extracts from Queen's Speech debate (Commons) (day 1): Campaign to Protect Rural England - May 11
Wednesday, 12 May 2021 08:18
Zarah Sultana (Coventry South) (Lab):...That is what a true
people’s Government would do, but it is not what this Queen’s
Speech is doing. Instead, it tries to take us back to business as
usual—to the rigged economy of the past. Let us look at what is in
it: “reforms” to planning and the NHS. We have seen what Tory
“reforms” mean. They mean cuts and deregulation, creating the “next
generation of slum housing.” That is not what I am saying; it is
what the president of the...Request free
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(Coventry South) (Lab):...That is what a true
people’s Government would do, but it is not what this Queen’s
Speech is doing. Instead, it tries to take us back to business as
usual—to the rigged economy of the past. Let us look at what is in
it: “reforms” to planning and the NHS. We have seen what Tory
“reforms” mean. They mean cuts and deregulation, creating the
“next generation of slum housing.”
That is not what I am saying; it is what the president of the Royal
Institute of British Architects has warned about the White Paper.
Today, a Campaign to Protect Rural England
branch has called the plans a disaster. Health academics have
described the NHS White Paper as consolidating the “market
paradigm” in the NHS. Although the Queen’s Speech contains promised
new laws for property developers and private healthcare companies,
there is absolutely nothing about workers’ rights. There is not a
sight of the promised employment Bill. There is no ban on fire and
rehire and no end to zero-hours contracts. There is nothing for
more than 5.7 million people in low-paid or precarious work,
nothing for the 4.2 million children growing up in poverty, nothing
for the one in seven adults without access to the social care they
need and absolutely nothing that comes close to tackling the
climate emergency...
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