With only a hundred days to go to the local and probable general elections, Progress is today launching 100 Labour achievements for 100 days. Our goal is to celebrate the difference that Labour has made to life in the UK and across the globe every day until May 6, reminding party members, activists and supporters of what we have achieved and telling the world why the party fights on for a fourth term.
Much has been done, and much remains to do. With this countdown we can reflect on past accomplishments and think ahead to the challenges facing us on May 7.
Please comment below with your one favourite Labour achievement and a suggestion of which day this could be marked on.
100. Scrapped section 28 and introduced civil partnerships. On the day that the British social attitudes survey revealed that negative attitudes to homosexuality had halved since 1983
99. Crime down by 45% since 1995. As overall crime fell by 8% last week, British Crime Survey figures remind us of the overall fall over the last decade and a half
98. Record number of students in higher education. Today we learned that more students from disadvantaged backgrounds are going to university than five years ago
97. Written off up to 100 per cent of debt owed by poorest countries, as Jean-Roger Kaseki on Progress calls for Haiti’s debt to be cancelled
96. Introduced directly-elected mayors on the day Simon Fanshawe argued for extension of their powers at the Progress one-day manifesto conference
95. Introduced the smoking ban, as Andy Burnham announces plans to halve the number of smokers by 2020
94. Equalised the age of consent, as LGBT history month kicks off today
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