WATCH: ‘Britain is going backwards!’ Keir Starmer blasts Tory failings which have left Britain ‘in decline’

Sir Keir Starmer has slammed the Conservatives while speaking at the Economy 2030 Inquiry, in which he set out his new approach to growth.

Focusing first on the Tory’s failures, Keir began: “This Parliament is on track to be the first in modern history where living standards in this country have actually contracted, household income growth down by 3.1%, Britain worse off.

“Now, over the last 13 years we may have become a little desensitised to findings like this, but these aren't the concerns of the past.

“This isn't living standards rising too slowly, or unequal contractions and concentrations of wealth and opportunity. This is Britain going backwards. Decline.

“And before anyone ventures the pandemic and the war in Ukraine as explanations - big shocks undoubtedly…

“I point to the evidence the Economy 2030 inquiry has set out at length that our productivity failings, the root cause, predate those shocks and that other countries, comparable countries, have dealt with those same challenges much more effectively.”