Claim the Future

Radical reform of international finance is needed combined
with the pursuit of debt cancellation by the UK. The G20
agreed to suspend some debt payments for 76 countries.
But this involved only country-to-country debt, not debt to
international institutions or the private sector.
Because of the central role of the City of London in global
finance the UK’s support for the new international campaign for
debt cancellation would be a game-changer.
The Black Lives Matter protests highlighting Britain’s imperial
past and role in the slave trade should make debt cancellation a
first step in a reparations process phased over time.
Health and Social Care
Care Guaranteed:
A National Care Service
Austerity, privatisation and fragmentation within the NHS and
care sectors have exposed the UK to one of the worst Covid
death rates in the world. If we aspire to ensure good health and
care for all, we need a reset programme to rebuild our NHS as
a publicly-owned universal and comprehensive health service,
alongside the founding of a National Care and Support Service.
Over the last decade the NHS has been subjected to the longest
funding squeeze in its 72 year history. When the coronavirus
crisis began, the NHS had over 100,000 staff vacancies,
including 40,000 nurse vacancies caused by the removal of the
nurse student bursary, exacerbated by the ‘hostile environment’
policies and pay falling by 8% in real terms.
Before the pandemic NHS hospitals had recorded the highest
number of A&E ‘trolley waits’ on record, NHS targets had not
been met since at least 2016, and some not since 2015, including
the waiting time for cancer treatment.
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Health and
Social Care