UK Labour Party’s Keir Starmer sets out 5 policy pledges for next election, vows to make Britain fastest-growing economy in G7
- With an election due next year, Britain’s main parties set out their solutions to key issues such as strike action, inflation, a healthcare crisis and recession
- Starmer’s goal to have the fastest sustained economic growth in the G7 will be a challenge, the US has outpaced Britain almost constantly over the last 60 years
Britain’s opposition Labour leader Keir Starmer set out plans for five “national missions” on Thursday, including making the economy the fastest growing among the G7, in a challenge to the governing Conservatives ahead of a pivotal year for both parties.
If his party wins power, it should be judged on ensuring growth in every region after 13 years of Conservative governments which have left Britain’s problems “deeper, longer lasting and more painful”, Starmer said in a speech in Manchester, northern England.
“I will never accept that this country is destined for decline. That our best days belong to the past”, Starmer said. “Success is all around us, it just needs direction”.
With an election expected next year, Britain’s main parties are setting out their solutions to key issues, including a spate of worker strikes, decades-high inflation, a healthcare crisis and a predicted long recession.
Highlights of Keir Starmer’s five policy pledges:
Economic growth
