Scottish Labour Conference: Jeremy Corbyn speech

Scottish Labour Conference: Jeremy Corbyn speech; Jeremy Corbyn speech SOT - A society that cares for our public NHS, offering healthcare as a human right to all. This is the vision that is attracting people back to our Party. The vision that means Labour can win in Scotland again. And it is needed more than ever. There are currently 260,000 children in Scotland living in poverty. There are now 430,000 Scots earning less than the living wage. I am confident conference, just as I am sure you are, that under the progressive and principled leadership of Richard Leonard we can and we will build on our progress here and deliver our radical programme for change. But we are also living in tumultuous political times. The Tories’ Brexit plans are in chaos. At one of the most important times for our country in its history we have a divided Government that has no clear idea of what it’s doing what it wants or where it’s going. And as Theresa May has now admitted, under her plans for a reckless Tory Brexit the UK risks losing access to European markets. Make no mistake about it, reduced access to European markets means fewer economic opportunities for people in the UK. This is why we need a Labour government to take the reins from the free market ideologues who want to use Brexit to sign a race-to-the-bottom trade deal with Trump’s America and turn the UK into a deregulated offshore tax haven. And instead take the new common sense into the heart of government and help bring about a society that truly does work for all. Labour is the only party focusing on the issues that matter to people in their everyday lives, and the only party committed to putting power back into every community in the UK. When it comes to Brexit Labour’s priorities have been clear from the outset. We will fight for a deal that puts jobs and living standards first. Because the priority for people in Scotland and across the UK is access to high wage secure employment that will enable them to ...