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Labour will create 350 jobs a day in industrial heartlands ‘decimated’ by Tories

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Labour will create 350 jobs a day in industrial heartlands ‘decimated’ by Tories

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out Labour’s plans for a jobs revolution, with 650,000 new roles for plumbers, electricians, engineers and technicians over five years

Labour’s Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer will hit the campaign trail to promote the party’s plans for a jobs revolution(PA)

Labour has vowed to “make working people better off” with tens of thousands of new jobs in industrial heartlands decimated by the Tories.

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will set out details of Labour’s promise to bring in a jobs revolution, with 650,000 new roles created for plumbers, electricians, engineers and technicians over five years. Under the plans, the party would create 350 new jobs a day over the next Parliament, including 35,000 roles in the North East, 77,000 in the North West, 71,000 in Yorkshire and Humber and 29,000 in Wales.




It comes as former coalfield communities still struggle with unemployment, 40 years after the miners’ strike. Recent research for the Coalfields Regeneration Trust (CRT) said job growth in old pit areas has been far slower than in regional cities.

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves will promise to provide good, well-paid jobs for working people(Philip Coburn)

There are just 57 employee jobs for every 100 residents of working age in former mining areas, compared to the national average of 73, and 88 in regional cities.

Ms Reeves promised that Labour would create decent, well-paid jobs in communities destroyed by Margaret Thatcher and left behind by the Tories’ broken promise to level up the country.

Ahead of a campaign visit to promote the plans, she told the Mirror: “Britain’s industrial heartlands were destroyed by Thatcher in the 1980s, with families and pensioners still paying the price. Labour will turn things around, with a plan to make working people better off in all parts of the country.

“My promise to Mirror readers is this: I will work night and day to bring good, well-paid jobs to communities that have been forgotten under this Conservative government. The British people are crying out for change.”

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