It has been 18 months since Labour entered office in July 2024. Since then, they’ve promised competence, stability and fairness. What they’ve delivered is chaos, scandal, and decline. Across the country, people are feeling it. Working families are paying more. Borders are weaker. The justice system is stretched, small businesses are squeezed, and Britain’s global standing is fading fast.
Here are 12 ways Labour has already failed Britain in 2025:
Labour began their first full year in government by launching a £26 billion tax raid on working people, businesses, and pensioners, the biggest tax burden in modern British history. While families in Crawley were tightening their belts, Labour was taking more, not less.
They let welfare spending spiral. Rather than reform the system or reward work, they poured more money into dependency. The result? Fewer people working, more people claiming, and a welfare bill that keeps climbing.
Their immigration record is even worse. Labour scrapped the Rwanda deterrent and replaced it with nothing. Illegal crossings surged, and criminal gangs are back in business. On top of that, they scrapped the cap on foreign nationals accessing social housing. That means people who have just arrived can be housed before locals who’ve waited years. It’s indefensible.
By contrast, the Conservatives have a clear plan: our BORDERS policy will fast-track removals, impose a firm cap, and withdraw from the ECHR if it stands in our way. We will restore real border control.
Instead of investing in real priorities, Labour is ploughing up to £19.2 billion into a Tony Blair-style Digital ID scheme. They want to create a national identity database, tracking where you live, what services you use, and who you are. It’s the wrong priority, at the wrong time.
Their electric vehicle mandate bans new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. It’s an expensive, unrealistic policy that pushes up prices for drivers and hits families and small businesses. Labour call it progress. For most people, it’s just a burden.
They are weakening justice, too. Labour plan to scrap jury trials for serious offences in favour of judge-only “swift courts”. They also voted against tougher sentences for grooming gang members and violent offenders, not once, but repeatedly.
They’ve hammered high streets and hospitality with two rounds of business rate hikes. Local shops and pubs are facing tax bills up to 400% higher, even as Labour does nothing to rein in the online giants.
And while Labour punishes those who drive to work, they’re planning to hike fuel duty in 2026, reversing Conservative freezes and adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of everyday life.
Their foreign policy has been no better. In 2025, Labour gave away the British territory of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius for £35 billion, abandoning loyal islanders who wish to remain British and weakening our strategic position in the Indian Ocean.
And finally, Labour’s so-called “grown-up” government has fallen into disarray. Multiple ministers have already resigned or been forced out including scandals at the very top. The Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary were both exposed for avoiding stamp duty. One rule for them, another for everyone else.
And the truth is, these are just twelve failures. There are many more.
Under Labour, Britain is paying more, getting less, and falling behind. But it doesn’t have to be this way.
The Conservatives, under Kemi Badenoch, have a real plan to fix this: a Stronger Economy. Stronger Borders. Lower taxes. Safer streets. And a country run for the people who work hard, do the right thing, and expect their government to do the same.
The past 18 months have shown what happens when Labour are in charge: chaos, control, and decline. Britain can’t afford three more years of this.
