Commitment
Introduce a living wage to tackle in-work poverty
What this means
- The Labour Party promised to introduce a living wage as part of its 2024 general election manifesto, published in November 2024.[source]
- The commitment aims to help around 145,000 people who are in paid work but still living in poverty, a situation known as in-work poverty.[source]
- Alongside the living wage, Labour also promised to give workers a legal right to flexible working arrangements.[source]
- This is a promise only, not yet law or policy. No delivery date has been set, so voters and watchdogs should track whether it progresses if Labour enters government.[source]
Direct impact (1)
- owned by partyThe Labour PartyParty
Indirect impact (10)
Two-hop relationships traced through the entity above. Useful for spotting downstream knock-on effects.
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourAlan KellyOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourCiarán AhernOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourConor SheehanOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourDuncan SmithOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourEoghan KennyOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourGed NashOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourGeorge LawlorOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourIvana BacikOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourMarie SherlockOfficeholder
- owned by party → party member2-hop via labourMark WallOfficeholder
Summary derived from the records cited above. Read the methodology to understand how this is generated.
Relationship map
One-hop relationships derived from the entity records. Click any node to follow the link.
Status
Promised
Labour committed to introducing a living wage to support the roughly 145,000 people in employment living in poverty, and to give workers a right to flexible work.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Policy area
- Enterprise And Employment
- Owning party
- The Labour Party
- Responsible body
- —
- Responsible officeholder
- —
- Linked mandate
- —
- First stated
- 2024-11-17
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-21
Evidence & sources
Every status claim above is backed by a primary source — follow a link to the source-of-truth document.
Evidence
- Labour Party Manifesto 2024 - Building Better TogetherThe Labour Party·Retrieved 2026-05-21high
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