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Building a future to be proud of

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Ipswich’s

Future

Labour-run Ipswich Borough Council continues to protect the services that matter to you, but our town is being held back by 14 years of failing Conservative government.

Despite the challenges faced by all councils, our Labour-run council continues to provide a range of good quality, efficient and reliable services.

We are delivering ambitious projects like renovating Ipswich Museum and rebuilding Broomhill Pool, investing in our parks, and building hundreds of new homes, all while keeping council tax as low as possible.

Meanwhile the Conservatives running Suffolk County Council have left our roads in ruin, axed services, failed children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and hiked council tax by 5%.

After 14 years in power the Conservatives have driven the economy and our public services into the ground. People are struggling to put food on the table and pay the bills, and nothing seems to work anymore.

Rishi Sunak, Tom Hunt and the Conservatives are running scared of a General Election as they are terrified you will hold them to account for their terrible record.

It’s time to send Rishi Sunak and the Tories a message at this election – Ipswich wants change.

Vote for change. Vote Labour on 2nd May.

Standing up for Stoke Park

Britain has given me so much, if elected as your councillor I want to see a thriving, connected community in Stoke Park.

With my neuro-diverse, creative and design background, I can utilise those skills and experience, bringing fresh ideas and creativity for the benefit of our area. I was born in the former British colony of Hong Kong, and grew up on a council estate in Essex. It was at comprehensive school that I fell in love with the visual arts, before graduating with a BA (Hons) Visual Communication.

I have been relentlessly campaigning with the Ipswich Cladiators on building safety and leasehold issues ever since the Grenfell tragedy, and will bring that tenacity, working collaboratively with your sitting Labour Councillor Tony Blacker. We are both committed to working with everyone to solve your problems.

Thursday 2nd May

Together, we can build a new future for Ipswich

Future Labour investing in Ipswich’s

Labour is committed to investing in Ipswich, unlike the Conservatives who talk the town down. We are ambitious and have a plan for Ipswich to succeed. Our major refurbishment of Ipswich Museum will continue. We have also provided significant funding for Broomhill Pool and continue to work hard to bring empty buildings back into use.

We have also unveiled visionary plans for a new in-town swimming pool which will also allow Ipswich Town F.C. to expand Portman Road.

Getting Ipswich building again

Under Labour, Ipswich Borough Council continues to build homes with 100 completed since 2020, with another 300 set for delivery in 2025.

Whilst building these houses, we are futureproofing existing stock by retrofitting hundreds of homes with solar panels, A-rated boilers and insulation to keep bills down.

LABOUR’S PLEDGES

REVIVE IPSWICH TOWN CENTRE

Labour will make Ipswich town centre the heart of the community once again. A place where everyone feels safe and welcome, can shop, socialise, and experience brilliant culture.

KEEP IPSWICH BUILDING

Labour wants everyone in Ipswich to access quality homes they can afford to live in. To do this, Ipswich needs more new housing of all types and tenures. We’ve already built hundreds of new council homes, and we’ll build hundreds more.

MAKE IPSWICH BOROUGH COUNCIL GREENER

Labour will keep taking practical and decisive action and become a carbon neutral council.

PROMOTE COMMUNITY WELLBEING & FAIRNESS

Labour continues to take action to tackle health inequalities, ensuring access to the parks, culture, sport, and facilities.

A FINANCIALLY SUSTAINABLE COUNCIL PROVIDING GOOD QUALITY SERVICES

Labour-run Ipswich Borough Council continues to provide good, efficient and reliable services while keeping its share of council tax comparatively low.

A new look to Lloyds Avenue

Making it greener

Labour’s top priority is delivering a thriving town centre for Ipswich

Creating Digital Ipswich

Your hard working Labour Councillor making a difference in Stoke Park

A vibrant, inclusive events programme

200,000 people attended last year’s events

Since being elected in 2022, your Labour Councillor, Tony Blacker, has always stood up for residents, ensuring Stoke Park gets a stronger voice.

Pieces of casework since May 2022

Helping over 400 residents tackle issues including housing, anti-social behaviour, public safety, parking and trees.

Local Elections

Thursday 2nd May

ELECT

Sir Robin Wales Labour & Co-operative Party Candidate

Sir Robin Wales, has been chosen as our candidate to run for Suffolk Police & Crime Commissioner.

Sir Robin was directly-elected Mayor of Newham London between 2002 and 2018 - and was first elected councillor in 1982.

Now living in Suffolk, he is a trustee of the charity Abbeycroft Leisure, who provide community services throughout Suffolk.

In his role as Mayor, he worked extensively with the local police to reduce knife crime, prosecuted more than a thousand criminal landlords, and improved local neighbourhoods through a zero tolerance policy to anti-social behaviour.

He will talk to ordinary police officers to identify areas where we need a police presence - on the front line.

Putting police back on our streets

People in Ipswich want to feel safe – but after 14 years of Conservative government the majority of crimes go unpunished. Ipswich deserves better.

Labour-led Ipswich Borough Council are doing what they can by investing in CCTV and funding permanent daytime PCSOs. But we are being let down by a Conservative Police and Crime Commissioner, a Conservative MP and Conservative government who are all talk and no action when it comes to tackling crime in Ipswich.

That’s why Labour will make keeping our streets safe a central mission for the next government. We will put victims first and restore neighbourhood policing.

That means 1,000 new neighbourhood police and PCSOs for the East of England – fully funded through a police efficiency programme – with mandatory patrols of town centres by dedicated officers.

After 14 years of Conservative government…

How do you feel?

Tom Hunt has spent a lot of time talking Ipswich down since he arrived from Ely five years ago.

But what has he actually delivered?

A LOT OF MOANING, LITTLE DELIVERY

Photo-ops are not a substitute for action. Hunt’s voting record speaks for itself and shows he is not acting in the best interests of Ipswich.

To see how Ipswich Borough Council would be run by Conservatives, look no further than Suffolk County Council’s catastrophic ‘management’ of our roads.

All over Ipswich, roads are riddled with potholes and are crumbling away, yet the Tories responsible now have the brass neck to demand your vote.

RECORD NHS WAITING LISTS UNDER THE TORIES

Nearly 90,000 people are now stuck on the waiting list at the East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (which Ipswich Hospital is part of). The longer the Conservatives are in power, the longer patients will wait. The last Labour government slashed waiting lists and delivered the highest patient satisfaction in history. The next Labour government will do it again.

“CHANGE IS OVERDUE. ONLY LABOUR HAS A PLAN TO GET

UNITY. AMBITION. BACK JACK FOR IPSWICH

Getting Ipswich back on its feet

Labour-run Ipswich Borough Council is working hard to bring our town centre back to life, but are being held back by a Conservative government that makes things tougher for businesses, and a Conservative MP who repeatedly talks our town down.

Jack Abbott - as a Labour MP for Ipswich in a Labour government - would immediately get to work on reforming business rates and making online giants pay their fair share, giving Ipswich Borough Council greater powers to take over empty shops and tackle anti-social behaviour.

Labour’s rescue plan to end Suffolk’s dental desert

A Labour government will provide thousands more appointments as part of a package of measures to rescue dentistry and end Suffolk’s ‘dental desert’. It will tackle the alarming decline of NHS dentistry, which has left people unable to get an appointment. The crisis has led to DIY dentistry, with 1 in 10 people trying their own dental work. Labour will act to provide urgent care and long-term reform to restore NHS dentistry.

‘Better Off Plan’ to slash household bills

After more than a decade of the Conservatives in power, we face the largest reduction in living standards since records began. The tax burden will reach its highest level since the Second World War. In contrast, Labour’s ‘Better Off Plan’ will save households thousands of pounds. Energy bills will be cheaper after we insulate millions of homes and deliver clean power through Great British Energy. We will crack down on unfair insurance practices, subscription traps and unfair postcode pricing. By building 1.5 million homes, we will make housing and mortgages affordable.