WE, THE undersigned — representing a section of the poetry community — pledge our support to the Labour Party in the upcoming general election because we want to see its radically transformative and compassionate manifesto come into effect.

One that will see a commitment to social justice and equality, not only in its comprehensive policies of state support for consumers and producers of the arts and culture generally, but also in its social and economic policies to support working people, including:

• An end to austerity and the ideological attack on our welfare state
• An end to the malicious work capability assessments of the sick and disabled and PIP
• An end to the political scapegoating of the unemployed
• An end to the two-child benefit cap
• An end to discriminatory rhetoric at the dispatch box
• An end to the hostile environment for immigrants and refugees
• An end to rough sleeping
• An end to zero-hours contracts
• An end to unpaid internships
• An end to tuition fees
• An end to creeping privatisation of the NHS

And because we want to see these Labour policies implemented: