We have 5.7 million people in low-paid and insecure work.
Workers in transport, care, education and the utilities.
These were the people who kept the show on the road during the pandemic and their reward is continued low pay and job insecurity.
The millennial generation, clustered in low-paying sectors will be the first generation to have lower lifetime earnings than the one which went before.
After a decade of the Conservatives, we have an economy with historically low rates of investment. Since 2010, in the investment league table out of 170 nations, Britain comes in a miserable 150th.
Labour will work with sectors in which we are strong. Pharmaceuticals, materials, defence, chemical engineering, consumer goods environmental technology, transport and biotechnology.
Under Labour’s Buy, Make, Sell in Britain programme there will be more local procurement.
The towns that were the crucibles of the original industrial revolution need to be revived in the next.
The coal and cotton towns of Lancashire, the wool towns of Yorkshire, the great maritime and fishing economies of our seaports. These places made Britain the envy of the world.
We cannot make the nation we want without them.
The lesson is that a secure well-paid work force of skilled people in high-class work protected by good trade unions is not separate from good business.