We asked Labour people to devise what would be in Labour’s Alternative Queen’s Speech to show how Britain would be better under Labour.
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Progress editorial: The first Queen’s speech in two years is imminent. Labour should seize on the event to set out its own stall
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It should be fiscal responsibility first in Labour’s Alternative Queen’s Speech argues Jacqui Smith
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The UK needs a radical tax overhaul. Fabian general secretary Andrew Harrop sets out what this would involve
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Strengthening sure start comes first writes David Talbot
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Richard Darlington, Tony Dolphin and Graeme Cooke from IPPR present their Alternative Queen’s Speech for jobs and growth
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We need an Alternative Queen’s Speech for community empowerment argues Florence Nosegbe
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Patrick Diamond wants Labour to create an efficient, muscular state through a ‘too big to fail’ bill and a ‘mutual home-ownership bill’
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Jeremy Miles would introduce a ‘transparency in equal pay bill’ and introduce compulsory so that all politicians have to listen to all sections of society
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In Steve Van Riel‘s Alternative Queen’s Speech business should be required to publish the salary of its lowest-paid worker, and the OBR should be mandated to work with the opposition on costings
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LabourList editor Mark Ferguson would put an end to Crown dependency tax havens, and finally introduce a National Care Service
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Former Labour party general secretary Peter Watt would introduce a safety in care bill for all adults in care, and a rule to remove a set number of pieces of legislation from the statute book every year
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We must overhaul our taxation system and introduce regional transport authorities argues Gus Baker
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Anthony Parker presents his poetic contribution to the series
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