Affordable housing, workers' rights and Awaab's law: Angela Rayner's big 3 promises
manchestereveningnews.co.ukAngela Rayner has set out a timetable for some of Labour's key pledges on housing and worker's rights. The Deputy Prime Minister and Ashton-under-Lyne MP delivered the first major speech of this year's Labour Party conference in Liverpool - the first since the party came to power.
She spoke of how her experience as a single mum in Stockport has prepared her for government in a deeply personal speech on Sunday morning (September 22).
But she also made a series of announcements on when the new Labour government will start to deliver on some of its key pledges.
She announced that Awaab's Law - championed by the Manchester Evening News after we first revealed details of the shocking death of two-year-old in a Rochale flat - will finally come into force this autumn. READ MORE: 'A spate of evictions is coming to Manchester and we can't stop it' She reiterated promises to bring about the biggest boost to social and affordable housing in a generation, setting out a new target.
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