10 Questions for Candidates for Labour Leader and Deputy Leader

The 10 commitments are authored jointly by Jewish Voice for Labour, the Labour Representation Committee and Red Labour.

We urge other socialist groups and individuals in the Labour Party to ask all leadership and deputy leadership candidates to provide their responses to them. 

Commitments for a socialist Labour leadership

Will you commit yourself to working towards the achievement of the following policy goals?

1. End sub-contracting or outsourcing of NHS services; ensure that everyone who works in the NHS, from cleaners to consultants, has a secure contract of employment with trade union rights.

2. End tuition fees in higher education; reverse academisation in schools, restoring democratic control of state schools and ending the charitable status of private schools.

3. Implement a council housing programme as outlined in the 2019 party manifesto.

4. Transform welfare policy, ending punitive sanctions and bureaucratic traps that reduce people to poverty.

5. Take back into full public ownership Royal Mail, rail, water, electricity and gas, supporting cooperative, collective and community-owned projects.

6. Implement the Green New Deal, establishing carbon-neutral industries sited in those regions that have been long neglected, providing secure, sustainable, employment for future generations.

7. Repeal Tory anti-union laws; re-establish collective bargaining with national agreements wherever possible.

8. End trade in arms with states that break international law and commit human rights violations; Immediately recognise Palestinian statehood and protect the freedom to promote Palestinian rights.

9. Place Labour at the head of uncompromising opposition to all forms of racism and discrimination including Islamophobia and antisemitism, working in alliance with all sections of all communities vulnerable to right-wing attack.

10. Support open selection of all Labour Parliamentary candidates.