Labour campaign launch will capitalise on cost of living crisis and Partygate backlash
Labour will launch its local elections battle with the slogan “On your side”, urging voters to send the Conservatives a message about the pain of the cost of living crisis and No 10 lockdown breaches.
Keir Starmer will launch the party’s campaign in Bury, a symbolic location where one local MP, Christian Wakeford, defected from the Tories to Labour over Boris Johnson’s behaviour during the Partygate investigation.
Though the launch will focus entirely on the high prices of bills and the tax burden, Labour sources said the slogan was also intended to evoke the feeling of “one rule for them” that the public had expressed during the exposés of lockdown breaches.
The party will launch its campaign with new analysis claiming families will be 2,620 worse off, even despite the additional measures in Rishi Sunak’s spring statement to cut fuel duty and raise the threshold for paying national insurance.
Starmer will point to the rise in energy bills as well as the national insurance rise, and say Labour would cut people’s energy bills by up to 600 – funded by a windfall levy on the excess profits of the oil and gas companies.
Other campaigns will be launched in Worthing, a south coast town represented by two Conservative MPs where Labour hope to take the council, and Derby, a Midlands bellwether where Conservatives control the council.
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