Prime minister to say ‘things will get worse before we get better’ as he sets out plans ahead of parliament’s return next weekGood morning and welcome back to our rolling coverage of UK politics.Keir Starmer will deliver a much trialled speech in the gardens of Downing Street ahead of parliament’s return next week. The prime minister will vow to “reverse a decade of decline” and to “fix the foundations” of the UK economy.The riots didn’t just betray the sickness, they revealed the cure, found not in the cynical conflict of populism but in the coming together of a country the morning after and cleared up their community.Because that is who we are, that is what we stand for. People who cared for their neighbour.This is nothing but a performative speech to distract the public from the promises Starmer made that he never had any intention of keeping.In fewer than 100 days, the Labour Party has dumped its ambition of public service and become engulfed in sleaze, handed out bumper payouts to its union paymasters with ‘no strings’ attached and laid the groundwork to harm pensioners and tax working people.A £40m VIP helicopter contract used extensively by the former prime minister Rishi Sunak is to be cancelled. Starmer and his defence secretary, John Healey, have decided not to renew a contract for helicopter transport which is due to expire at the end of the year after it was extended in 2023 at Sunak’s personal insistence.The Scottish government has been told to “take responsibility” for fixing the country’s economic issues. Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has sought to capitalise on dire financial news in recent months by releasing what the party is calling a dossier laying out the extent of Scotland’s “economic decline and financial mismanagement” that can be laid at the foot of ministers.Rachel Reeves could raise at least £10bn a year through a radical shake-up of pensions that would make tax relief less generous to better-off earners, a leading left-of-centre thinktank has said. The report by the Fabian Society says tax breaks for pensions have become markedly more expensive for the government and its proposed changes would fill half the £22bn shortfall the chancellor has identified in the public finances. You can read more on this story here. Continue reading…
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Author : Yohannes Lowe
Publish date : 2024-08-27 09:39:11
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