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Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the Resolution Foundation conference at the QEII Centre in central London. Picture date: Monday December 4, 2023.
AUSTERITY is Labour’s economic agenda, Sir Keir Starmer announced today in a further lurch to the right.
A Labour government will not “turn on the spending taps,” the Labour leader said in remarks aimed at appeasing the City and the Treasury.
He acknowledged that public services are “on their knees” but offered little prospect of getting them back on their feet again.
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
We cannot refuse to abolish the unjustifiable two-child benefit cap that pushes children into poverty while finding billions of pounds for defence spending — the membership and the public expect better from Labour, writes JON TRICKETT MP
