I love Southwark. Our borough is diverse, it’s vibrant, it’s busy. It’s a bustling, amazing place.

We are a green borough, with stunning parks and hundreds of thousands of trees. Our schools are some of the best in the country. Our playgrounds and sports facilities are state-of-the-art. We have some of the best libraries and leisure centres and we are home to bustling town centres. 

Southwark has amazing cultural destinations from the Globe Theatre on the Thames, the nightlife of Rye Lane, the South London Gallery and a diverse food scene.

Working alongside our communities, Labour has protected and invested in the best parts of our borough.

But Southwark – and London as a whole – has become too expensive. 

Rent rises have outstripped wages. House prices are through the roof. A more unstable world means energy is getting more and more expensive. Basic essentials are increasingly unaffordable. Families are being pushed elsewhere. 

This must change.

Labour is making it our mission to make Southwark a place where everyone can succeed. 

Our vision is bold, it is ambitious. 

It means building more genuinely affordable homes; ensuring every young person can get a job, training or education when they leave school; working with our communities to keep our neighbourhoods safe. 

All while keeping Council Tax low and making sure Southwark is a council you can trust. 

Other political parties talk down our borough. They try to paint a miserable picture of our local neighbourhoods, despite the hard work of our communities.

The picture they paint is not the reality. 

To put them in charge would risk everything we have built and we are so proud of.

But we know people are struggling to get by. That is why our vision puts Labour at the forefront of the fight to make our borough a place where everyone can succeed.

Councillor Sarah King