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It has never been so clear that this Conservative Government has no plan and is completely out of touch with the lives of ordinary people.

Britain is worse off because the Conservatives are standing for the few and failing the many.

As they finished their annual conference, Theresa May’s closing speech said it all.

The NHS is in crisis. Waiting lists have soared with over four million people on the English waiting list, while 2.5 million waited four hours or more in A&E in 2016/17, compared to over 350,000 in 2009/10.

Cuts to adult social care are expected to reach £6.3bn by the end of 2017/18 and there are around 1.2 million people now who are living with unmet care needs.

I’ve dealt with heart-breaking cases involving social care in our own constituency and Cheshire East Council is only now, under immense pressure, beginning to address the fact that it has underpaid its own care workers for years.

Despite what the Conservatives are saying, every single school in Crewe and Nantwich still faces real-terms cuts.

Over 500,000 infant school children are in super-sized classes and there are over 24,000 unqualified teachers working in state schools.

Cuts to police budgets are stretching the workforce to its limit and violent crime is on the rise across the country.

A crisis of low pay and stagnating wages has developed. Workers’ real wages are still lower than they were in 2010.

The so-called ‘National Living Wage’ is not a real Living Wage – it won’t hit £9 an hour by 2020, as previously promised – and does not compensate for cuts elsewhere.

Six million people are in jobs that pay less than the Living Wage, while there are nearly a million people on zero-hours contracts.

The average wage in Crewe and Nantwich is less than the rest of the UK and Crewe has been named as one of the most indebted places in the country.

Working families are set to be on average over £1,400 a year worse off by 2020, while those at the top have been given tax breaks worth tens of billions.

This Government is handing out new tax breaks to big corporations and the super-rich, including £2.5bn in tax giveaways in 2017/18 alone.

The Conservatives are incapable of taking the decisions needed to build a better Britain and all they promise is more austerity and cuts to vital public services.

Labour’s Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, Jon Trickett MP, said of Theresa May’s closing speech: “This was supposed to be the speech where Theresa May relaunched her flailing premiership but it only confirmed her failure.

“She admitted Britain faces great problems but all she has to offer are watered-down versions of Labour’s ideas, reheated policies, and empty promises.

“Rather than apologising to her party, Theresa May should have taken the opportunity to apologise to the public for a record of failure for the many and left Britain worse off.”