Working-Class Struggles and Inequality

I am no different to every single person here in this constituency.

I work hard. That is what we do.

Except things have changed a lot over the last few decades, because working hard

used to get you something. It got you a house, a nice life,

holidays. It got you somewhere. But now,

working hard, what does that get you?

Because talk to anyone here and they will tell you.

The people who work hard but can't put food on the table,

can't get their kids school uniforms, can't put their heating on, can't

live off the pension they worked hard to save for, can't

even begin to dream about ever having a holiday, ever.

Because life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we're

working to line the pockets of billionaires.

We are being bled dry, and I don't think it's extreme or

radical to think working hard should get you a nice life.

And I don't think that if you're not able to work,

that you should still have a

nice life. I think that absolutely everybody should get a

nice

life. And clearly, I'm not the only person who thinks that,

because I've made clear my position and my commitment to working-class

communities,

the community that I am from. People in their thousands told

me on the doorsteps and at the ballot box that what we

are sick of is

being let down and looked down on, that we are sick of our

hard work making other people rich