Holborn and St Pancras · number 12 of 12 on the ballot paper

Keir Starmer

Labour Party

Standing for Parliament in Holborn and St Pancras, polling day 4 July 2024. No previous candidacies on Democracy Club’s records.

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MoneyNothing found

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HousingPublished

What they say Source: Manifesto

Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged 1.5 million new homes in England over the parliament.

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Labour will get Britain building again, creating jobs across England, with 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth, 13 June 2024
Labour will get Britain building again, creating jobs across England, with 1.5 million new homes over the next parliament.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/kickstart-economic-growth/

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Manifesto
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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged to abolish Section 21 no-fault evictions and let private renters challenge unreasonable rent increases (relevant to renters).

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We will immediately abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated against, empower them to challenge unreasonable rent increases, and take steps to decisively raise standards, including extending ‘Awaab’s Law’ to the private sector.

What this could mean for you

This would apply to you if: rent privately (including a shared student house).

Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
We will immediately abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, prevent private renters being exploited and discriminated against, empower them to challenge unreasonable rent increases, and take steps to decisively raise standards, including extending ‘Awaab’s Law’ to the private sector.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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Section 21
The rule that allowed landlords in England to end an assured shorthold tenancy without giving a reason. The Renters' Rights Act 2025 abolished it.
Manifesto
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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.

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Labour will deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth, 13 June 2024
Labour will deliver the biggest increase in social and affordable housebuilding in a generation.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Kickstart economic growth, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/kickstart-economic-growth/

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On the map: land for new homes near you

Health and carePublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and new dentists for areas that need them most.

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Labour will tackle the immediate crisis with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to areas that need them most.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Build an NHS fit for the future, 13 June 2024
Labour will tackle the immediate crisis with a rescue plan to provide 700,000 more urgent dental appointments and recruit new dentists to areas that need them most.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Build an NHS fit for the future, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/build-an-nhs-fit-for-the-future/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged two million extra NHS operations, scans and appointments a year in England.

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As a first step, in England we will deliver an extra two million NHS operations, scans, and appointments every year; that is 40,000 more appointments every week.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Build an NHS fit for the future, 13 June 2024
As a first step, in England we will deliver an extra two million NHS operations, scans, and appointments every year; that is 40,000 more appointments every week.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Build an NHS fit for the future, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/build-an-nhs-fit-for-the-future/

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EducationPublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged free breakfast clubs in every primary school (relevant to households with school-age children).

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We will take initial steps to confront poverty by introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school, protecting renters from arbitrary eviction, slashing fuel poverty, banning exploitative zero hours contracts, and improving support to help people get into good work.

What this could mean for you

This would apply to you if: school age (5 to 17).

Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
We will take initial steps to confront poverty by introducing free breakfast clubs in every primary school, protecting renters from arbitrary eviction, slashing fuel poverty, banning exploitative zero hours contracts, and improving support to help people get into good work.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged to recruit 6,500 more teachers.

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Labour’s first steps: Recruit 6,500 more teachers

What this could mean for you

This would apply to you if: there are children.

Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
Labour’s first steps: Recruit 6,500 more teachers

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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On the map: schools near you

EnvironmentPublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged no new licences to explore new oil and gas fields.

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We will not issue new licences to explore new fields because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure, and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower, 13 June 2024
We will not issue new licences to explore new fields because they will not take a penny off bills, cannot make us energy secure, and will only accelerate the worsening climate crisis.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/make-britain-a-clean-energy-superpower/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged a Warm Homes Plan of grants and low-interest loans for insulation, solar panels, batteries and low-carbon heating, to cut bills.

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The Warm Homes Plan will offer grants and low interest loans to support investment in insulation and other improvements such as solar panels, batteries and low carbon heating to cut bills.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower, 13 June 2024
The Warm Homes Plan will offer grants and low interest loans to support investment in insulation and other improvements such as solar panels, batteries and low carbon heating to cut bills.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/make-britain-a-clean-energy-superpower/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged a publicly owned clean-energy company, Great British Energy.

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To drive forward investment in clean, home-grown energy production, Labour will create a new publicly-owned company, Great British Energy.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower, 13 June 2024
To drive forward investment in clean, home-grown energy production, Labour will create a new publicly-owned company, Great British Energy.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Make Britain a clean energy superpower, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/make-britain-a-clean-energy-superpower/

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On the map: flood risk near you

TransportNothing found

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ImmigrationPublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged a new Border Security Command with new investigators, intelligence officers and cross-border police.

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We will create a new Border Security Command, with hundreds of new investigators, intelligence officers, and cross-border police officers.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Strong foundations, 13 June 2024
We will create a new Border Security Command, with hundreds of new investigators, intelligence officers, and cross-border police officers.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Strong foundations, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/strong-foundations/

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Crime and policingPublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto set a mission to halve violence against women and girls within a decade.

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Our landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade will require a national effort.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Take back our streets, 13 June 2024
Our landmark mission to halve violence against women and girls in a decade will require a national effort.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Take back our streets, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/take-back-our-streets/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged Respect Orders banning persistent adult offenders from town centres.

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Labour will fix this by introducing new Respect Orders – powers to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres, which will stamp out issues such as public drinking and drug use.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Take back our streets, 13 June 2024
Labour will fix this by introducing new Respect Orders – powers to ban persistent adult offenders from town centres, which will stamp out issues such as public drinking and drug use.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Take back our streets, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/take-back-our-streets/

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Manifesto
A party's published programme for an election, setting out what it says it would do.
Respect Orders
Court orders proposed to ban persistent adult offenders from a town centre or from certain behaviour.

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged to tackle serious violence with more prevention and personal accountability for those profiting from knife crime.

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We will tackle the epidemic of serious violence, with a greater focus on prevention, including by holding those companies and executives cashing in on knife crime personally to account.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Take back our streets, 13 June 2024
We will tackle the epidemic of serious violence, with a greater focus on prevention, including by holding those companies and executives cashing in on knife crime personally to account.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Take back our streets, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/take-back-our-streets/

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On the map: recorded crime near you

Defence and the EUPublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto ruled out a return to the EU single market, customs union or freedom of movement.

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There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected, 13 June 2024
There will be no return to the single market, the customs union, or freedom of movement.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/britain-reconnected/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged steadfast military, financial and diplomatic support for Ukraine.

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With Labour, the UK’s military, financial, diplomatic and political support for Ukraine will remain steadfast.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected, 13 June 2024
With Labour, the UK’s military, financial, diplomatic and political support for Ukraine will remain steadfast.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/britain-reconnected/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto committed to recognising a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution.

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We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected, 13 June 2024
We are committed to recognising a Palestinian state as a contribution to a renewed peace process which results in a two-state solution with a safe and secure Israel alongside a viable and sovereign Palestinian state.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Britain reconnected, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/britain-reconnected/

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Equality and rightsPublished

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Labour's 2024 manifesto committed to working with disabled people so their views are at the heart of policy (relevant to households with a disabled member).

In their exact words Source: Manifesto

Labour is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all we do.

What this could mean for you

This would apply to you if: someone is disabled or has a long-term condition.

Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
Labour is committed to championing the rights of disabled people and to the principle of working with them, so that their views and voices will be at the heart of all we do.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices.

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So-called conversion therapy is abuse – there is no other word for it – so Labour will finally deliver a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, while protecting the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
So-called conversion therapy is abuse – there is no other word for it – so Labour will finally deliver a full trans-inclusive ban on conversion practices, while protecting the freedom for people to explore their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged a Race Equality Act enshrining the right to equal pay for Black, Asian and other ethnic minority people.

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Labour will introduce a landmark Race Equality Act, to enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority people, strengthen protections against dual discrimination and root out other racial inequalities.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
Labour will introduce a landmark Race Equality Act, to enshrine in law the full right to equal pay for Black, Asian, and other ethnic minority people, strengthen protections against dual discrimination and root out other racial inequalities.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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Manifesto
A party's published programme for an election, setting out what it says it would do.
Equality Act
The 2010 law that brings together protection from discrimination, covering characteristics such as age, disability, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation.

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged to enact the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010.

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Labour will ensure no matter whatever your background, you can thrive, and therefore we will enact the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010.
Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
Labour will ensure no matter whatever your background, you can thrive, and therefore we will enact the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act 2010.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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Manifesto
A party's published programme for an election, setting out what it says it would do.
Equality Act
The 2010 law that brings together protection from discrimination, covering characteristics such as age, disability, race, religion, sex and sexual orientation.
Socio-Economic Duty
A part of the Equality Act, not yet in force in England, that would require public bodies to consider how their decisions affect inequality.

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Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged the full right to equal pay for disabled people (relevant to households with a disabled member).

In their exact words Source: Manifesto

We will introduce the full right to equal pay for disabled people.

What this could mean for you

This would apply to you if: someone is disabled or has a long-term condition.

Sourced: Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, 13 June 2024
We will introduce the full right to equal pay for disabled people.

Labour Party Manifesto 2024: Break down barriers to opportunity, Labour Party, published 13 June 2024. Retrieved 18 September 2026. Archived copy. https://labour.org.uk/change/break-down-barriers-to-opportunity/

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