Cruddas welcomes interim report of IPPR’s Condition of Britain

Speaking at the launch of the Interim Report of the IPPR’s Condition of Britain project, Jon Cruddas, Head of Labour’s Policy Review, will reaffirm One Nation Labour’s commitment to reforming Britain’s politics so that it listens to working people and uses the expertise of ordinary families in order to improve public services for all.

Jon Cruddas MP is expected to say:

“The Condition of Britain programme is important to our country. It is important to the policy review I am leading. It is important to Labour’s One Nation politics. And it is also to me personally.

“We need to reconnect with the people of Britain. Politics has been too remote from people’s lives for too long. And we can only hope to help change our country for the better, if we understand what is happening to our country right now.

“It is central to my vision of politics and Ed Miliband’s vision of our country that we should help people to become powerful and capable individuals in their own communities. I know a citizens’ organisation called Marsh Farm Outreach. It has a statement of values which says: ‘Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I’ll remember. Involve me and I’ll understand.’ Our work in Labour’s policy review follows this basic belief.

“Ed Miliband’s One Nation is a response to our post-crash world and the new period we are entering. It is a politics of national renewal. A politics of trust and goodwill. A society of give and take. A One Nation government devolving power and responsibility to people and places. And public services which invest in prevention not wasting money for our failure to do so.”

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