Ipswich Labour PPC Jack Abbott meets with ASLEF Strikers.
Jack Abbot (Left) talks to ASLEF Strikers – ASLEF joined by Ipswich & District Trades Council opposite Railway Station.
Jack Abbot was selected as Labour PPC for Ipswich earlier this month. 31 years old he has already had extensive experience as a Labour Councillor on Suffolk County Council. Jack has support from all wings of Ipswich Labour Party.
Labour announce former county councillor as Ipswich MP candidate. Ipswich Star. 11th of July.
Mr Abbott, who now works for a renewable energy trade association, said: “It’s a real honour and a privilege to be selected by so many Labour members and to have had so much support through the entire six-week campaign from people of all political stripes.
Mr Abbott said that if elected he would be particularly focussed on supporting children and young families through the cost-of-living crisis and working to ensure that green energy jobs come to Ipswich.
He said: “It’s alleviating and tackling the immediate cost pressures and taking kids and families out of poverty, but it’s also putting a long-term economic future in place as well.”
Jack is mainstream Labour,
“My pitch has been based on three main things leadership, unity, and ambition. I think those three things are really, really important. And hopefully, they will mean that not only can we win the next general election, but actually deliver a real vision for what Ipswich can be in the future as well.”
Our PPC is knows Ipswich well, from his work as a County Council, and through his contact with the rich local associative life.
During his selection campaigning Jack was in Rope Walk, bordered by a small town centre council estate. In the road is the Seventh Day Adventist Sunday Food distribution for people in need. It has been striking, over the last couple of years, to see people I know, including a person who had lived in my street, queuing up there at Sunday lunch-time.
Tendance Coatesy 
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