Labour promise mass transit system and to build 2,000 homes a year in 2021 manifesto Rees launched Labour’s election manifesto with Bristol’s Labour group leader, Marg Hickman, who is not standing for re-election in Lawrence Hill ward in May. In the foreword to his party’s manifesto, he says: “We have delivered on all of our 2016 pledges: we’ve tripled affordable house building, protected our children’s centres and libraries from national austerity where other councils couldn’t, and are exceeding our climate targets. “We’ve laid the foundations for a mass transit system, we’re building new schools and Youth Zones, and we’re on track to reach net-zero by 2030.”