Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, MP, will arrive in the West
Yorkshire constituency of Pudsey on
Saturday as part of his nationwide tour highlighting Labour’s
plans to revive the economy and raise living standards in our
cities and towns. Labour is seeking to overturn a Tory majority
of 331 in Pudsey at the next General
Election.
At the ‘Road to Rebuilding the Economy’ conference in
Pudsey on Saturday, McDonnell will set out specific
plans from Labour to create jobs, boost wages and increase living
standards in West Yorkshire.
The Shadow Chancellor will speak in support of Labour’s
prospective parliamentary candidate Jane Aitchison, who is also
the Leeds Trades Union Congress President, as well as a
representative for the PCS union.
MP, Labour’s Shadow
Chancellor, said:
“Jane Aitchison has been at the forefront of fighting against
austerity as a trade union representative, and she has fought for
workers in Pudsey for over 25 years.
“Jane knows the difference a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour government
will make for Pudsey, for all workers, and for the whole country.
“Pudsey has been let down badly by the Tory government, which has
inflicted more than eight years of austerity on this community.
Per person, Yorkshire gets just one-third the transport
investment of London.
“Jane is a candidate who will challenge and the Tory government over
these brutal cuts.”
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The Shadow Chancellor has already visited two other
Tory-held marginal seats, Hastings in Sussex and
Broxtowe in Nottinghamshire, as part of his nationwide tour aimed
at exposing the impact of Tory austerity measures on our
communities. At those events, McDonnell met business leaders,
trade unionists, campaigners and councillors.
The 2018 programme for the tour, themed as ‘The Road to
Rebuilding the Economy’, include visits to constituencies in
Scotland, Lancashire and Staffordshire.
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor is to visit communities that have been
neglected by the Tory Government and by their sitting Tory MPs on
a regular basis from autumn 2018 until the next general
election.
The tour is also aimed at bringing communities together to
discuss and plan the sort of local economy they need for the
future.
