Dr. Jeevun Sandher MP

It has been two years since the appalling attacks by Hamas terrorists. Those attacks included British citizens as their victims.

We stand with the Jewish community against all hatred and discrimination, the return of all hostages, and will do what we can to build a lasting peace.

Sof is one of the best comms people I've met.

Read her insightful piece on British patriotism here: renewal.org.uk/blog/mr-blob...

Just 20% of Brits think today's youth will be have better lives than their parents.

That's 'cos today's youth are stuck in a Long-term Living Standards Crisis. Not enough good jobs and not enough houses.

That's why we have to create more good jobs and build a lot more houses

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Everyone being able to afford a good life is a Labour value.

Gabby Hinssliff rightly sets out why a paying £5 for a coffee makes a good life less affordable.

That's why this government is investing to get costs down.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🚨 GOOD NEWS: SOCIAL MEDIA USE IS FALLING 🚨

Social media has become more damaging. We are being driven apart by algorithms that are designed to drive up engagement through outrage.

I am appalled by the horrid attack on worshippers at a synagogue in Manchester today, on Yom Kippur.

All of my thoughts are with those injured and their families. I stand with the British Jewish community against antisemitic hate. We are all stronger when we stand together.

Why did this Labour Party conference matter so much?

Join me for a delicious pint to find out 🍻

.@Ed_Miliband is right.

There is no law of economics that says we must all do well. We have to act to make it so: by investing in people and the communities they live in.

Putin is not having a good week Moldova, Bosnia, and Ukraine

Let's all gloat a bit at Putin's expense, shall we?

Britain achieves great things when we stand together, rather than apart.

Thank you to Peter Kyle for standing up for a united, inclusive Britain.

These are dangerous times we are living in. We have two choices in how we respond to them.

We can find someone to blame — as Reform do. Or we can act, so that we all do well.

Each of us coming together, with a common cause. Those are our Labour values.

My reflections on the PM’s speech on the last (full) day of Conference.

Supporting business is essential for growing the economy and creating good jobs 💼

Our values say everyone should be able to live a decent life.

Making life affordable is what this government will do.

A long-term strategy for British industry, trading with our allies, and implementing the Employment Rights Bill in full.

Peter Kyle’s Conference Speech set out how Labour is getting businesses growing and wages rising.

We can build a country where we all live a decent life. It is for us to make it so.

Congratulations!

Great to be at Party Conference talking about the most important issue facing us: getting living standards rising.

Our nation succeeds when each of us does well and when we pull together around the values we share: unity, decency, determination.

🚙 We’re supporting JLR suppliers 🚙

This is the difference a Labour government makes. Working with businesses and workers to secure prosperity for all of us.

Fear and loathing are the defining emotions of our time. We are divided as never before.

We have to understand this moment in order to meet it. To meet it, we must build a vision of being British that unites us.

Read my pre-conference piece here: fabians.org.uk/fear-and-loa...

4) That is why we're acting on growth *and* bills. Good for country, good for us electorally.

Some of our action on bills 👇

- Investing in social homes to get down housing costs
- Investing in clean energy to get down bills
- Redistributing childcare costs to help parents

3) Getting costs down helps all of us *and* it helps the voters we are losing the most

Low- and middle-income voters spend more of their money on essentials.

Get bills down for all and helps the voters we are losing the most

(more info here: jeevunsandher.substack.com/p/labours-li...)

2) Living standards are falling for *our* voters because of low growth *and* high costs

Low growth means lower wages

High costs are making us all poorer. Rising housing costs will make us *even* poorer. High energy and childcare costs will keep us poor

1) Living standards are falling for non-pensioners over this parliament*. Young parents particularly badly hit

Non-pensioners were about twice as likely to vote for us at the last election (40% non-pensioners voted Labour vs 20% Labour)

*(On JRF projections, useful but not gospel)

To win the next election, we need to get living standards rising for *our* voters

To get living standards rising, we are acting to get growth up *and* bills down

A 🧵 on our living standards challenge

h/t @sam-tims.bsky.social + others @jrf-uk.bsky.social

Very interesting piece from @samfr.bsky.social

One reason for the decline of the centre (right) parties are declining is *very* few can afford a decent life by working hard

There are too few well-paying jobs *and* you need help from Mum and Dad for a house

It's a living standards problem

Lower energy bills means higher living standards.

@ofgem announced all customers will be offered lower standing charge options by January. That's a progressive option that helps get bills down.

@LSC and I called for standing charge reform in August. Great to see it happening.

Prices keep going up and up. They've risen by 25% since 2021. A Freddo used to cost 10p, now it costs 35p.

What's going on? Why is this making us worse off? And how can we fix it?

Promising development - Fabian Society The postwar international order is breaking down – and with it, the international aid system. In particular, important donor countries, including the US and UK, have reduced the amount of development…

See our contribution to Promising Development, released by @thefabians and @LabourCID, in Chapter 7 here: fabians.org.uk/publication/...