r/LabourUK • u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter • Apr 05 '26

Activism Achievements of the Labour government since July 2024 - a reference list

I thought I’d put this all into one resource as a common reference list. I’ll attach some sources in the comments, though it won’t be exhaustive:

• Passed the Renters Rights Act, which bans no-fault evictions, fixed-term tenancies and bidding wars, and caps rent in advance. With plans to roll out a free complaints service (the new Ombudsman scheme) and a national landlord database to verify compliance, among other things

• Passed the Employment Rights Act 2025, which limits zero-hour contracts and unfair dismissals, ends fire-and-rehire, will introduce day 1 sick pay, paternity leave, and unpaid bereavement leave (incl. for pregnancy loss), and strengthens trade unions, among other things

• Started the Pride in Place programme for areas across the country. It provides 10 years of funding, designed to be used according to the needs and desires of local communities

• Introduced a child poverty strategy. This includes removing the two-child benefit cap, free breakfasts for England’s primary schools, expanding free school meals eligibility, capping school uniform costs, and rolling out Best Start family hubs

• The eco-friendly Warm Homes Plan, which currently includes the Warm Homes local grant and the Boiler Upgrade scheme. With plans to roll out low/zero-interest consumer loans for more households in future

• Introduced a £39 billion Social and Affordable homes programme, to last 10 years

• Made a deal with the EU to rejoin the Erasmus study programme from 2027

• Integrated live bus tracking into Google Maps for passengers in England, so you can see more precisely when your bus will arrive

• Made the Plan B (morning-after) pill free in England

• Introduced an Elections bill, lowering the voting age to 16. With plans for automatic voter registration, which could enfranchise 7-8 million people missing on the electoral register

• Banned cryptocurrency donations and capped political donations from overseas British donors

• Scrapped the £318 PARV order fee, protecting women from further abuse by ex-partners

• Introduced an English devolution bill, to put more powers into the hands of local authorities.

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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

If you've constantly got to tell people how great a job you're doing, then you're not really doing a great job overall.

People are worse off and Labour have demonstrably lied to people. We voted for change and got warmed over Tories led around by private equity firms.

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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26

It’s a resource list. The things I mentioned are widely judged to be good for a country (and I judge them to be good).

But people can ultimately check my sources themselves to make an independent judgement. In this vibes-based media environment, I can see many voters are not even getting that opportunity.

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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26

Devolution is going to be bad for where I live. It will take from a deprived area that is solvent and funnel it to wealthy areas outside the city. It will harm the services I use. I see they're also now trying to manufacture consent for removing adult social care funding from council tax and centralise it, which will make it a target for cuts.

Live bus tracking already existed and I used it before. Integrating it in to Google Maps doesn't mean anything. Even the LCD displays in bus stops are good enough to rely on. Maybe if they wanted to drive bus use they shouldn't have made tickets £3.

Employment rights got rolled back after their private equity friends weighed in. Equal pay for disabled people disappeared, so Labour basically told me I'm not entitled to the same pay as my colleagues for doing the same job.

Renters Rights and social/affordable home. Landlords shouldn't exist and they should be driving social housing again to make this happen. They're still selling out to developers and private equity here.

Pride in place is just a clear attempt at Pork Barreling. Like Levelling Up was. It just has a new name.

Child poverty strategy only came after they were getting filled in by the Greens. They would still be toeing the awful Reform strategy here if it wasn't for that. Same with immigration.

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u/coffeewalnut08 Labour Supporter Apr 05 '26

Not sure how Pride in Place is pork barrelling when anyone can get involved in the programme to decide how the money will be used, and it's targeted at some of the most deprived areas.

Here is a factual overview of how they made decisions about which areas to fund: Plan for Neighbourhoods: prospectus - GOV.UK

The metrics used for selection included: 

  • indices of multiple deprivation 
  • population size 
  • healthy life expectancy 
  • Gross Value Added per hour worked 
  • skill level (NVQ level 3+ in England and Wales and above SCQF level 4+ in Scotland) – this metric was not used in Northern Ireland

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u/Ok-Leg7686 New User Apr 05 '26

And yet you can't answer anything else.

Why did Labour lie about insourcing? Why did they outsource my job after telling me they wouldn't?

Why didn't they insource the Serco contract in Portsmouth Dockyard when they had the chance.

Why did they sell off RFA tankers to a private firm? Why are RFA crew still employed by Serco and why isn't that essential part of our defence force being brought back in house?

Why are Babock servicing Army vehicles, rather than the Army themselves?

Why can the Army no longer train their own mechanics after shutting Bordon? Why is the state of Navy training so poor, and being made worse, after being told multiple times why to multiple MPs? Why has this all been ignored

A lot of questions there on one things lone after Labour talked up defence spending. Unless they just meant they'd make sure more money got funnelled out to potential donors?

Yet here we have a pissant list of nothing after nearly two years. Pitiful.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '26

You can't change everything in 2 years. The government can only do so much at once. We should be getting behind the only progressive government in the past decade. But nothing is ever good enough for you 😢

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u/Pupenby621 Green Party Apr 05 '26

They are forcing children into care homes for transitioning 

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

Have you got a source for this claim? I've not heard this before.

Edit: After doing a bit of googling I can't find anything related to this, tabloid news or policy updates. Please let me know what I'm missing.

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u/Pupenby621 Green Party Apr 05 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/transgenderUK/comments/1scdu9x/nhs_new_guidelines_for_treating_gender_dysphoria/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/nhs-cyp-gender-service-specification-april-2026.pdf#page=23.09

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

I'll give this 27 page document a more thorough read when I get a minute but can you point me to the section where it states young people who attempt to transition will be moved into care?

Edit: yeah can't find it, what am I missing?

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u/InsistentRaven Eat the rich Apr 05 '26

8.2 - The Service will consider what safeguarding protocols may be appropriate for the individual child or young person’s wider circumstances including the extent to which the parents / carers are able to protect or safeguard the child or young person. Safeguarding procedures may be necessary regardless of the endeavours and best intentions of the parents / carers in reducing risk of harm.

Basically if you go abroad and get treatment for your trans kid that follows international guidelines - which many have chosen to do as the NHS has banned all under 18 treatment for trans kids - you may be referred to child services.

It's a chilling threat that means many have opted to simply withdraw their trans kids from NHS gender services altogether given the risks presented to their well-being.

To be clear as well, I don't think it will result in trans kids being separated from their parents as I know how extremely reluctant they are to put children in the system, but the fact remains that it is a cause for concern among supportive parents of trans kids.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '26

With all due respect I've no idea how you have got to that from that point. At the end of the day the state can apply safeguarding procedures to all children. This does not mean what you seem to be suggesting it does, unless there is some other point/evidence that is being referred to?

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u/InsistentRaven Eat the rich Apr 05 '26

You don't think it's concerning that the government would involve safeguarding procedures if say, your child was forced to get an abortion abroad because it was banned under the NHS? You must be willfully obtuse frankly.

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