NEW REPORT

Today @lukeraikes sets out how the new Labour government can achieve its most important mission: economic growth

‘Going up a gear’ sets out three first steps for the new government to improve private sector productivity

1. Invest more effectively in productivity enablers, like transport, skills and innovation
2. Improve employment rights and enforcement
3. Build strong and stable governance and institutions Private sector productivity is essential for living standards and tax revenue.

Governments can’t guarantee productivity growth, but they need to make good decisions, and since 2010, governments have often ignored the evidence.

Our productivity growth has been among the worst in the G7.

🚨 NEW FABIAN & FES REPORT 🚨

UK must learn the right 'levelling up' lessons from Germany›

1. Devolve but collaborate
2. Set long-term plans and invest
3. Grow towns, regions & cities

New report with @FES_GB BY @lukeraikes investigates:

🧵 30 years since the Berlin Wall fell, East German productivity has overtaken the UK

the midlands, the north, Wales and NI are similar Czechia & Slovakia - not France & Germany

This is a policy failure, Germany made better decisions..

..but this view would surprise many Germans!

🚨🚨 NEW FABIAN REPORT 🚨🚨

2 million older voters who did not support Labour in 2019 would consider doing so now.

This is one of the findings of our latest report ‘A mature approach – How can Labour reconnect with older voters’

Find out more in the 🧵 below… Until recently, older voters have turned away from Labour since the party left office in 2010.

In 2019, support from over-55s reached a record breaking low