The Labour Party’s annual conference will take place on Saturday in Liverpool, with a focus on boosting living standards and helping communities.
The political party will use the conference to make its “most direct pitch yet to people in post-industrial towns and communities,” said a source from the party.
In a statement released by Jeremy Corbyn, the party leader said widespread cuts and government mismanagement had “left many of our towns and communities hollowed out and without hope”.
“It is Labour’s mission to represent the hopes and aspirations of working-class people in our country. Our country needs to radically change course and this week we’re going to be laying out our plans to rebuild Britain for the many, not the few.”
“We’ll show this week how we’re going to transform our broken economic model, have a rebirth of our great public services and give local communities the control they need to make their towns thrive again.”
Another key focus of the conference will be Brexit, where many members of the party have called for a referendum on the final Brexit deal.
A new poll for the campaign group People’s Vote, revealed yesterday that the party could win over 1.5 million extra voters if it backed a second referendum on Brexit.
The survey found that 26 percent of people revealed they would be more likely to vote for the political party if it campaigned for a “people’s vote”.
“Of the respondents who currently support Labour and voted leave in the Brexit referendum, only six percent put Brexit at the top of their concerns and say they would not, or be less likely to, vote Labour if the party backed a popular vote. This is just two percent of all Labour supporters, or just over 200,000 voters in all,” said former YouGov president Peter Kellner, who analysed the data.
“In other words, the non-Labour voters that the party could win over outnumber the Labour voters that the party risks losing by almost nine to one,” he added.