THE leader of the Harlow Labour group has returned from the Labour Party conference buoyed by the keynote speech by Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer.

Councillor Chris Vince said: “Assured, confident and with a bold vision for the future of our country, Keir Starmer’s speech at the Labour Party Conference made me more determined than ever to campaign as hard as I can to get Labour back into power, both locally and nationally. It’s what Harlow and the villages needs, and what the country needs.

Over the past 11 years we’ve seen waiting times in A&E increase, school sizes increase, poverty increase. When it takes a premier league footballer to campaign to stop our children going hungry, we know something is going incredibly wrong and the government can only blame the pandemic for their shortcomings for so long.

But it doesn’t have to be this way. There is an alternative, a Labour alternative and in his speech at conference Keir Starmer outlined what that will mean.

It will be an alternative that supports those people in work, that supports ethical business, and which finally starts to address the climate emergency. It is an alternative that means young people have the skills that they really need for life, and which has the aim of building a stronger future together.

However, I am not going to take anyone’s vote for granted which is why I and my fellow Councillors and Harlow Labour activists are going to continue to do what we always do – get out across our town and listen to residents. I believe passionately that we need a Labour government to fix the mess made by this Conservative government. However, to do that, we as a party need to show we’re listening and we’re engaging with voters, not just at election time, but all year around. That’s what I intend to do.