Key announcements
· Labour to scrap business rates and replace with fairer system
· UC the cost of the Conservatives for working families
· Labour will “power up Britain” with the “most radical programme
of devolution our country has ever seen”
· Labour analysis shows thousands of aviation workers facing
furlough cliff edge in three days’ time - 18 months after
Chancellor promised sector support deal
· Labour pledges £35 million support fund for British veterans
and Afghan interpreters
· Labour analysis shows thousands of aviation workers facing
furlough cliff edge in three days’ time
Speakers in the Conference Hall (times subject to
change)
1015 – 1020 – ,
Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth
Affairs
In her speech, Lisa Nandy will set out Labour’s vision for
Britain’s place in the world. She will present a Foreign Policy
which will put people at its heart, to defend our national
security, protect our planet and uphold human rights.
1105-1109 – MP, Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for
Defence
Labour’s Shadow Defence Secretary will announce a £35 million fund to support British
veterans and Afghan interpreters.
1115-1120 – , Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Work and
Pensions
In his speech, will highlight the Tories’ failings on welfare and
Labour’s efforts to provide safety and security for families,
including scrapping the five week wait for Universal Credit,
ending the benefit cap and the two-child limit.
1200-1225 - , Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the
Exchequer
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves today announces Labour will cut –
and eventually entirely scrap – business rates, replacing them
with a new system of business taxation fit for the 21st century.
1415 – 1420 – Rt Hon , Labour’s First Minister for Wales
1445 – 1450 – , Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Communities
and Local Government
Shadow Communities Secretary Steve Reed will announce Labour’s
intention to embark on an unprecedented programme of devolution
to local government if Labour wins the next election.
1450 – 1455 – , Labour’s
Mayor of London
1550 – 1555 – , Labour’s Leader
of Newcastle City Council
1640 – 1645 – Joanne Anderson, Labour’s Mayor of
Liverpool
1645 – 1650 – , Labour’s
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
In her speech, will
celebrate the contribution the last Labour government made to the
Good Friday Agreement and how Labour will fight to defend it
against a Prime Minister who has repeatedly placed his own
political self-interest over the interests of Northern Ireland.
1650 – 1710 Metro Mayors “in conversation”
, Mayor of Greater Manchester
, Mayor of West Yorkshire
, Mayor of South Yorkshire
1710 - 1715 - , Leader of the Scottish Labour Party
