I was proud to be at the launch of Leicester Labour’s manifesto for a fairer, safer, happier city with our fantastic council candidates and mayor.

The local elections are on 4th May!

Labour in Leicester’s manifesto includes our three main pledges for a fairer, safer, happier city which you can read below:

1.     Fairer

Help with the cost of living

Labour will:

• Support over 20,000 households a year to reduce their cost of living with £20m a year worth of council tax, household and rent support

• Provide free community based energy advice

• Create more community shops to reduce food bills

• Provide free transport around our city centre for everyon

• Deliver a programme of free festivals and activities

• Build 1500 new affordable homes, including 600 new council homes.

2.     Safer

Cleaner, safer streets

Labour will:

• Support bulky waste collection and pursue offenders where fly-tipping does happen

• Bring in new specialist anti-social behaviour teams on housing estates

• Deliver a ‘Love Leicester’ clean streets campaign by getting mess reported in real-time and cleaned up quickly

• Keep streets safe – investing in CCTV, good levels of modern street lighting, working proactively with police so people feel safe whilst also tackling crime and antisocial behaviour

• Make our roads safer with 80% of Leicester’s streets becoming 20mph zones.

3.     Happier

 A healthier, happier city

 Labour will:

• Invest £4m in new community hubs to support families and carers

• Invest in your local high streets to make them better places for leisure and shopping whilst supporting local businesses too.

• Protect our parks and green spaces, libraries and leisure centres

• Invest £5m in play areas and new multi-use games areas across our neighbourhoods

• Expand walking and cycling routes around Leicester

• Improve the city’s bus network

• Plant 20,000 trees per year and we will be a net zero council as fast as we can.