Everyone has a right to feel safe and secure in their homes and in their community.
I’ve listened on the doorstep to households concerned about anti-social behaviour, parents worried about their children being exposed to drugs and recently we’ve seen Buxton market targeted by vandals.
The Conservative record on law and order is criminal.
The Conservatives talk tough on crime but the reality is, after 13 years, they are missing in action in the fight against crime.
Communities feel under threat, while police have disappeared from our streets. Trials are delayed for years because of the biggest courts backlog on record, with a record number of criminals getting off scot-free.
Locally, we have seen our police stations close including in New Mills and Chapel. In New Mills the hope of a Safer Neighbourhoods Team base has also been thwarted due to funding issues. This means across the length of High Peak, we only have two police stations and no custody suites.
There were 2074 police officers in Derbyshire under the last Labour government. By 2017 the Conservatives had cut 364 of those police officers.
As the next general election approaches the Conservatives have suddenly realised that their cuts to police forces are unpopular and unsafe.
Despite this, as of September 2022, there were still 73 less police officers protecting the towns and villages in High Peak than when the Conservatives came to power.
And they have cut the number of PCSOs by 15% in Derbyshire since 2010.
The local Conservative MP should be ashamed of his Party’s record on law and order.
The next Labour government will prioritise preventing crime by putting 13,000 extra neighbourhood police and PCSOs on our streets.
We will punish anti-social behaviour with tougher sentences for offenders and we will protect our communities with more police, more action to stop young people being drawn into crime, more prosecutions and by standing up for victims.
A Labour government means safer homes, safer streets and safer communities.
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This week I spoke in Parliament in the debate about introducing new employment rights for workers in High Peak and across the country.
14 years of Conservative governments has left the UK’s employment laws outdated and our economy blighted by insecurity, poor productivity, and low pay.
Labour’s Employment Rights Bill delivers on a key manifesto commitment. It will provide the framework for the biggest change in worker’s rights in 50 years, including banning exploitative zero-hour contracts and abolishing the scourge of employees being dismissed only to offer
them continued work on less good terms and conditions.
In the debate I chose to focus on the vital reforms the Bill will deliver for young families and in particular women in High Peak.
Before becoming an MP, I was an employment lawyer advising businesses, workers, and trade unions. One of the occupational hazards was friends and family wanting advice on workplace
rights. The most depressing part of those chats was that it was new Mums that wanted and needed the advice the most.
The stories were always basically the same: just as they were about to return to work after maternity leave or just after they had, their employer had informed them they were no longer needed. Their job no longer existed. They were at risk of redundancy.
The joys of that first year to 18 months with a new baby is all too often tarnished because of worries about the security of the mother’s job.
An estimated 4,000 pregnant women and mothers returning from maternity leave are dismissed each year at present.
We must do better. If we are going to improve productivity and grow our economy, we have to show young families that they matter and that their contribution to our society and economy is valued.
This Labour government will do that. The Employment Rights Bill will give us the power to ban the dismissal of women who are pregnant, on maternity leave and during a six month return to work period.
An additional 1.5 million parents will be eligible to take parental leave by making it a day oneright.
Nearly two million people who are out of the labour market because they are looking after family, or their home will benefit from new policies on flexible working.
Looking after a family and children is stressful enough without having to worry about how it might impact on your career.
So, when I voted for these new rights, I had in mind every new mum and young family in High Peak who deserves to know we are looking out for them, and we are on their side.
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All these comments do what they always do with a Labour politician “fall on deaf ears”.
Well I won't vote labour again after the announce on slashing discounts on right to buy. After renting my home for over 30 yrs and paying full rent in that time Ive paid well in excess of what it cost to build. Was hoping to secure my home for life but now that's ripped away. Next you'll be kicking out working families from docial housing. Another policy for the well off giving the rest if us no aspirations
Further unreasonable demands on employers? Why not 🤦♂️
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