What has Labour done for the residents of Crawley?

• Cut VAT to 15%

• Cut taxes for every basic rate taxpayer by £145

• Increased child benefit to £20 per week

• Child tax credit up by £75 a year from next April

• Given every pensioner an extra £60 in January and £120 for every pensioner couple

• In April the state pension will rise by £4.55 for a single pensioner

• Households with someone over 60 will receive a £250 winter fuel payment and the over 80s will receive £400

• Introduced the National Minimum Wage

• Record police numbers

• Cut overall crime by 35 per cent.

• Record levels of literacy and numeracy in schools

• 85,000 more nurses and 32,000 more doctors

• Dads now get paternity leave of 2 weeks for the first time

• Gift aid worth £625 million to charities last year

• All workers now have a right to 4 weeks’ paid  holiday

• Introduced child tax credit giving more money to parents

• Scrapped Section 28 and introduced Civil Partnerships

• Banned fox hunting

• Free TV licences for over-75s

• Free local bus travel for over-60s

• Over 1.5 million child trust funds have been started

• Free eye test for over 60s

• Free entry to national museums and galleries

• Cancer death rates down by 12 per cent, saving 43,000 lives

• Free nursery places for three and four-year-olds

Labour Success

Our party has been in power now for eleven years - something Labour has never come close to achieving before.

And though it’s been tough at times and there are still big challenges to overcome, we can be hugely proud of the progress we have delivered together for the country.

It is easy to forget what Britain was like in 1997 - the NHS on its knees, schools crumbling, crime doubled and millions of families still scarred by unemployment over three million and interest rates still recovering from hitting 15 per cent on Black Wednesday.

And while we know that everything is not perfect now, Britain is, without doubt, a better, more prosperous and fairer place.

Labour’s purpose is fairness: fair rules, fair chances and a fair say for everyone.

Labour has only been in government for four short periods of the 20th century. However its achievements have revolutionised the lives of the British people.

The values Labour stands for today are those which have guided it throughout its existence:

• social justice
• strong community and strong values
• reward for hard work
• decency
• rights matched by responsibilities