LABOUR’S parliamentary candidate, Chris Vince responds to Mr Sunak’s speech in an open letter to the Prime Minister, 

Dear Mr Sunak, in your speech today you called for change. Whilst I agree with you on that, I also have some news for you. The Conservatives have been in power for thirteen years. You are an MP for the Conservative party. I thought you might have known that as you have held two ministerial posts under Boris Johnson’s Conservative party and you are now the leader of the Conservative party and Prime Minister. Perhaps you can be forgiven for this oversight  because, of course, nobody actually elected you to lead a government, not even your own party.

In your speech today you spoke about the need to take decisions for the long term, but immediately cut the biggest long term decision and investment the country has made for a decade. You scrapped HS2 and said every penny would go on other projects, but the Conservatives have lied so often about every area of delivery that only a fool would believe that.

You promised reform of A-levels to include extra Maths and English and extending school hours. But schools already can’t find enough Maths or English teachers to deliver the existing curriculum, and those teachers that remain face workloads that are already too great. Until these issues are solved your great announcement is just more pathetic, empty promises.

There was more pointless, empty rhetoric, but what I found really interesting was what you failed to mention.

Mortgages have gone up by £220 a month on average since the catastrophic Conservative budget of 2022, rents have soared too as a result. You proposed no solution.

Food prices have sky rocketed in the past year, as the cost of living goes through the roof. And energy bills this winter are set to increase. You offered no help.

Sewage was dumped into rivers and coastlines 824 times a day last year after your Conservative MPs, including Harlow’s MP Mr Halfon, voted to allow water companies to continue this disgusting practice in order to maximise profits. You didn’t promise to stop it.

National Health dentistry has all but disappeared for most people. Ambulance delays are the worst they have ever been.  Not worth a mention it seems.

You are threatening to break a manifesto commitment to maintain the pensions triple lock which would make millions of pensioners poorer in real terms. No apology from you.

School roofs and public buildings are in danger of collapse after your Conservative MPs, including Harlow’s MP Mr Halfon, voted to keep a report into the state of school buildings secret. No mention of this.

And you lead a party mired in sleaze, famous for awarding lucrative contracts to Conservative party members, the family of Conservative party members or donors to the Conservative party. All quiet on this front too.

Since you have been an MP the Conservative party have excelled at only two things, deceit and dishonesty. 

Mr Sunak you are completely out of touch with the lives of most people, you didn’t address their real concerns today. The only issue you appear to have listened to is that people are desperate for change.

However its not a change of Conservative leaders that people are clamouring for, but a complete change of government. Only when you and your crooked cabal of chancers are kicked out of office will real change be possible. You can easily deliver the change required by calling a general election now.