“How exactly Labour plans to accomplish their goals is an open question. Labour doesn\u2019t really have a strong, bold new policy regarding the economy; there isn\u2019t a big, splashy ideological framework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And on one of the major factors dragging Britain\u2019s economy down \u2014 Brexit \u2014 Labour plans to negotiate agreements about agriculture and livestock with the EU to bring down food costs, and hopes to make professional services agreements that will help UK professionals work in EU countries. Still, many of the economic pains of Brexit may remain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And on migration, other than scrapping the Rwanda plan, there\u2019s not too much daylight between Labour and the Tories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe current government already has quite a large focus on enforcement,\u201d Ben Brindle<\/a>, a researcher at the Oxford Migration Observatory, told Vox. Labour\u2019s approach is \u201cstill doing many of the things which the current enforcement operation is already doing\u201d to deter irregular migration. And when it comes to migration for students and skilled labor, net migration is likely to go down anyway due to policies already in place, rather than anything Labour is actually doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Labour does have proposals on hand to address the housing<\/a> and transit crises \u2014 including by loosening up building restrictions<\/a> in the immediate term so that new housing, infrastructure, and transit services can actually be built, which could help stimulate the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe\u2019re using a planning regime that was created in 1948, that is incredibly stringent, and means that we\u2019re just not building things anywhere,\u201d Ansell said. \u201cWe have a housing crisis. We have a transportation crisis, and we have a public infrastructure crisis and an energy crisis \u2014 it\u2019s all because we can\u2019t build stuff. That gives [Labour] a narrative. It also gives businesses the expectation that actually there\u2019s going to be loads and loads of infrastructure or investment and probably over quite a period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ultimately, though, Labour sees building a stable government, especially after the years of uncertainty post-Brexit, as a useful framing \u2014 but potentially a part of its mandate. The party\u2019s manifesto is built around the idea that it \u201ccan stop the chaos\u201d which has helped exacerbate external problems into national crises when it is in power.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n