Starmer demands a 'decade of national renewal as Labour leader eyes TEN years in power
Sir Keir Starmer is gearing up for ten years in power, as the Labour Leader has said the country needs a "decade of national renewal"
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Sir Keir Starmer is gearing up for ten years in power, as the Labour Leader has said the country needs a "decade of national renewal".
Addressing the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, the Leader of the Opposition promised an "entirely new approach to politics".
He promised to fix "tomorrow's challenges, today".
Starmer said: "Today we turn the page, answer the question ‘Why Labour?’ with a plan for a Britain built to last.
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“With higher growth, safer streets, cheap British power in your home, more opportunity in your community, the NHS off its knees. A Britain with its future back.
“It will require an entirely new approach to politics – Mission Government, new priorities, totally focused on the interests of working people, five national missions all fixed on a single-minded purpose to govern for the long-term.
“End the Tory disease of ‘sticking plaster politics’ with a simple Labour philosophy that together we fix tomorrow’s challenges, today.”
The Leader of the Opposition said the "age of insecurity" has been "loaded onto the backs of working people".
He admitted that there is "no magic wand", adding: "A decade of national renewal. That is what it will take.
"We will need ambition, determination, patience absolutely. But also bravery. Because it is brave to reject the hope of the easy answer.
"Courageous to choose instead the hope of the hard road.
"But if we give Britain the certain destination. If we walk step by step with working people we can bulldoze through the barriers in their way."
Starmer said the Conservative Party would “put the NHS in the ground” if it wins the next election.
Starmer said: “The whole point of our NHS is to be the crowdfunded solution for all of us.
“That’s the fundamental principle and at the next election it’s on the line.
“The Conservative Party that brought the NHS to its knees will put it in the ground. We have got to get it back on its feet.”
Starmer had a rocky start to the speech, as the main stage was stormed by a protester who poured glitter on the Labour Leader.
The Leader of the Opposition had just walked on stage when a man ran onto stage, grabbed Starmer and poured glitter on him.
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Starmer tried to push the protester off, but he grabbed onto him before being wrestled to the ground.
The Labour Leader looked dishevelled as he continued his speech without his jacket on.
The protester shouted: "True democracy is citizen-led. Politics needs an update.
"We demand a peoples' house."
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