Speaking at the Labour Party’s annual conference on Tuesday, the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) main opposition party leader Keir Starmer promised a “decade of national renewal” if Labour wins the next general election. Starmer, named after founder of the Labour Party Keir Hardie, made a speech supporters and commentators viewed as lighting the touch-paper for a year-long campaign in the run-up to the election. In a message directed at the population beyond the conference hall, Starmer said he runs a changed Labour Party, “no longer in thrall to gesture politics, no longer a party of protest. Labour will fight the next general election on economic growth, Starmer said. “The Conservatives have lost their crown as the party of economic competence and economic management.

Source: Stuff October 10, 2023 19:40 UTC