What Angela Rayner is expected to say as she opens Labour Party conference in Liverpool this weekend

Angela Rayner will set out Labour’s plan to make workers better off as she opens the party’s conference in Liverpool on Sunday (October 8).

Labour MPs, delegates and lobbyists will descend on the city for five days of policy debate, rallies and networking. Party leader Sir Keir Starmer will head to the annual gathering boosted by a comfortable lead in the polls and a resounding by-election victory over the SNP in Scotland’s Rutherglen and Hamilton West seat.

His deputy Ms Rayner, who is also shadow levelling up secretary and Ashton-under-Lyne MP, will use her main speech to pledge 'a decent job, a secure home and a strong community' for all under a Labour government.

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She accused Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of 'taking a sledgehammer' to these.

Ahead of the conference, which carries the slogan 'Let’s get Britain’s future back', she said: “With five prime ministers in seven years and constant chaos and instability, Britain’s future has been left to take a back seat. The Tories’ legacy is national decline – a nation levelled down and starved of hope.

"While the Tories have stolen Britain’s future, it’s Labour that will give it back with our plan to make working people better off by securing growth for all people and in all places.”

Ms Rayner will flesh out Labour’s planned new deal for workers, which she said aims to 'boost wages, make work more secure and support working people to thrive'.

“It’s how Labour will make work pay,” she said.

She recently gave unions a 'cast-iron commitment' to push through an Employment Rights Bill within 100