The Scottish Labour leader used his speech at the UK conference to contrast the 'tough choice' rhetoric of Keir Starmer with a positive vision of the future.
Anas Sarwar has offered an upbeat vision of a Labour Government in a pointed contrast to the “buzzkill” from Downing Street. The Scottish Labour leader said “things can and will get better” after Keir Starmer warned life is “going to get worse” before it improves.
Addressing delegates in Liverpool, Sarwar’s speech majored on “hope” and only briefly referenced the black hole. He instead focused on the positive things he said the Government is doing: In what will be interpreted as a dig at Starmer’s warning of looming pain, he said: “Scotland’s best days lie ahead of us. Things can and they will get better.”Reeves, who will deliver her first Budget in October, used her conference speech to warn about the tough choices that would need to be made in the short term: “I know you are impatient for change, I am too, but because of that legacy left by the Conservatives, the road ahead is steeper and harder than we expected.
“Yes, we must deal with the Tory legacy and that means tough decisions, but I won’t let that dim our ambition for Britain. So, it will be a budget with real ambition, a budget to fix the foundations, a budget to deliver the change that we promised, a budget to rebuild Britain.”
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