Sadiq Khan launches climate action plan for London

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Labour mayoral incumbent Sadiq Khan announced a new 10-point climate action plan this morning, alongside Shadow Energy Secretary Ed Miliband.  Mr Khan heralded the prospect of a Labour government and mayor promising more homes, jobs and police officers for Londoners.

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00:00 In the last four weeks I've been out with the Shadow Prime Minister, the Shadow Home Secretary,

00:04 the Shadow Chancellor and today the Shadow Energy Secretary. It's really important because Londoners

00:10 now know that I'll have the support of a future Labour government if they are elected later on

00:16 this year. I call this election a moment of maximum opportunity because there is a chance

00:20 again to have a Labour mayor and the Labour government working closely together. The only

00:23 time it's happened is once in the past. We won the Olympics, we secured funding for Crossrail,

00:28 the Elizabeth line and in one year alone 8,000 council homes were built. Let me talk about some

00:32 of the policies I've already announced in the last four weeks. So Keir Starmer has confirmed

00:38 the first term Labour government will build 1.5 million homes across the country. We're going to

00:43 get a serious chunk of those homes in London on top of the 40,000 council homes, on top of the

00:48 6,000 rent control homes. We know that Rachel Reeves has announced a national plan to help

00:55 create jobs across the country. Aside from her plan we're going to help create 150,000 jobs.

00:59 There'll be more jobs created if the Labour government is elected. Yvette Cooper has said

01:04 if there's a Labour government she'll help us get an additional 1,300 police officers and PCOs and

01:10 today Ed Miliband has confirmed if there's a Labour government we'll get a thousand additional

01:14 projects in London as well. That's just the last four weeks, we've got 20 days to go still.

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