Labour secured a ton of wins this week.

While Middle East tensions grabbed the headlines, Labour made demonstrable progress towards building a fairer, stronger Britain.

5 eye-grabbing changes:

(and this is only since Monday) 1. £9bn for crumbling schools and hospitals

Labour is investing more than £6bn a year to make NHS buildings safer, including removing RAAC concrete.

Another £3bn goes to transforming schools and colleges.

Labour has already done more on asylum than the Tories managed in 14 years.

And no one needed to be sent to Rwanda.

5 measurable signs of progress: 1. Asylum decisions more than doubled

Labour inherited a massive 175,000-case backlog from the Tories.

But by March, the Home Office was making 116% more initial decisions than before.

Labour is rescuing the NHS faster than anyone predicted.

The latest stats show their strategy is creating tangible improvements – and a brutal reality check for the Tories and Reform.

5 undeniable signs of progress: 1. Waiting list falls to two-year low

Backlog inherited: 7.62m
Backlog today: 7.39m

That’s a drop of 230,000, and the first time in 17 years the waiting list has fallen in April.

Labour is fundamentally re-engineering Britain.

It’s become almost impossible to do basic things like building homes or fitting a heat pump. Now a flurry of new laws are ending that era of national self-sabotage.

5 examples to be excited about: 1. Fast-tracking two new reservoirs

Without them we face holding back housebuilding, even higher water bills, and risk of drought.

The same law also speeds up other developments like railways and clean energy projects.

Reform is stumbling harder than anyone expected.

Their local election victories were a brief flash of glory. But the reality of governing has quickly exposed their inexperience.

5 early failures: 1. Scrapping floods committee… in a flooding hotspot

Reform-run Lincolnshire Council abolished its flooding scrutiny committee, which holds Anglian Water and the Environment Agency to account.

This was Lincolnshire in January:

This is nonsense.

A department store blames Labour for its collapse. But the CEO’s political leanings, the store’s history, and the local public’s reaction tell a very different story.

Here’s what really happened: 🧵 CEO Tony Brown wants you to believe Labour killed Beales.

He’s plastered Rachel Reeves’s face across ‘closing down sale’ posters and blamed tax rises for making his business “unviable”.

But Beales was already collapsing under the Tories.

Reform’s victory could be the start of its downfall.

On the surface, it feels like momentum. But look back at history, and the warning signs are clear.

Here’s what they are:

(and how Labour can benefit) Until now, Reform wasn’t really a political party. It was a pressure group with a fan club.

Shouting from the sidelines, but not in charge of anything.

Now it controls ten councils – and that changes the dynamic.

This might be the most delivery-focused government we’ve ever had.

Labour has already ticked off 10 manifesto promises – just months into power.

The full list: 1. “We will abolish non-dom status and end the use of offshore trusts to avoid inheritance tax”

A new residence-based inheritance tax system replaced the non-dom system last month.

Rachel Reeves just won over America’s most powerful banker.

He says her economic plan is making Britain a better place to invest.

Here’s why it matters for Labour’s re-election chances:

(even if you think they’re an unlikely alliance) JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon told the FT:

“There’s much to like about the new government’s pro-growth agenda.”

But there’s a problem…

It’s not obvious yet, but the EU rejoining process has already begun.

Not through campaigns or slogans – but technical deals and unsexy laws.

5 signs it’s happening: 1. Youth mobility scheme

Rachel Reeves has confirmed the Labour is discussing a scheme to allow young Brits to work in Europe.

That’s a big shift from ‘No plans for a youth mobility scheme’, which was the line before the election.

Nine months ago, the NHS was at breaking point.

The turnaround under Labour has been remarkable – and barely anyone’s talking about it.

5 seriously impressive stats: 1. Waiting list down for a sixth month

The number of treatments waiting to be carried out has consistently fallen under Labour.

Labour just saved our steel indusutry.

The Tories would never have done it in a million years.

4 times they willingly let the sector fail: 1. Redcar steelworks collapse

More than 2,000 people lost their jobs when the coke ovens and blast furnace closed in 2015.

A cross-party report found the Cameron government was too slow to act on industry recommendations to save the industry.

Reform’s candidates are dropping like flies.

With just 3 weeks until the local elections, many have been suspended for making dark comments that have no place in 2025.

5 of the worst:

(and the disturbing stuff they said) 1. Stephen Hartley (Oxfordshire)

Called Jimmy Savile “an innocent man”, “a Scapegoat”, “a working class hero”, and his “role model”.

Margaret Thatcher quit as an MP 33 years ago today.

Her cruel decisions have echoed through the decades, creating some of the most serious problems the UK faces in 2025.

5 examples: 1. Privatising water

Thatcher sold off the water companies to private investors in 1989.

Today, they’re £60 billion in debt, pumping sewage into our rivers, raising our bills… and still paying out bonuses and dividends.

Anyone who thinks Labour isn’t progressive hasn’t been paying attention.

Look at the laws it’s passed so far – radical reforms that the Tories will find difficult to stomach.

5 of the most exciting: Passenger Railway Services (Public Ownership) Act

Brings rail contracts into public ownership when they expire.

Effectively the first step towards re-nationalising the railways, but avoids ending contracts early (which would mean paying compensation to operators).

Labour is coming down hard on tax avoidance.

Buried in the Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves announced plans to close loopholes and take £1bn out of the hands of tax dodgers.

5 of the new measures: 1. Closing loopholes

Right now, HMRC can shut down tax avoidance schemes, but promoters can just register a new company and crack on.

Labour is proposing a ‘universal stop notice’ to target the *individuals* involved instead, making it harder for them to move their operations.

The Spring Statement won’t be all doom and gloom.

Yes, growth is sluggish. But there are reasons for optimism hidden in the details.

5 potential pieces of good news: 1. £2bn for affordable homes

It would fund 18,000 new homes.

Another step towards Labour’s goal to build 1.5m homes this parliament.

The UK economy is doing better than you think.

Forget the doom and gloom for a moment. There are growing signs it’s quietly gaining strength.

Here are 7 bright spots: 1. GROWTH BEATING MOST OF G7

The UK economy will grow faster than all but one G7 country this year, according to the OECD.

Welfare reforms are only part of the story.

Labour made plenty of positive announcements for progressives to be proud of this week.

Here are 5 of them: SOLAR PANELS FOR SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS

Labour is investing £200m to install rooftop solar panels on around 200 schools and nearly 200 NHS sites.

Expected to save hundreds of millions on energy bills.

The NHS is improving rapidly under Labour.

You won’t hear it from the right-wing press, but the stats speak for themselves.

5 *evidence-backed* ways it’s getting better: 1. Waiting list shrinking:

The number of patients waiting for care fell for a fifth month.

Waiting lists fell twice as fast in areas with high unemployment, where Labour deployed expert medical teams.

Reform’s meltdown was inevitable.

It’s not just Rupert Lowe. Nigel Farage has a habit of turning his closest allies into enemies.

7 of the messiest fallouts:

(no one is mincing their words) Ben Habib

Previously Reform’s deputy leader, until he was ousted by Farage.

“He’s not fit to be prime minister”