Let's read between the lines of the Labour leader's 'vanilla' pledges
Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to the Backstage Centre, Purfleet The Conservative Government is a pathetic basket-case of hate – scapegoating migrants and disabled people for their 14 years of failure, while whipping up culture wars over, as is homelessness, NHS waiting lists remain outrageously high, low pay and insecure work is endemic; everywhere you look there is crisis: councils collapsing into bankruptcy, universities on the brink, and shortages of nurses, GPs, dentists, social care...
People have watched Rishi Sunak make five pledges in 2023 – and only achieve one of them, one he had nothing to do with achieving and which was forecast to happen anyway: halving inflation. Those were all part of his largely junked “10 pledges” – so if they can be so easily discarded, it’s understandable that he might not be believed today.
A decade-and-a-half of spending restraint and austerity has resulted in low growth and falling living standards. Labour needs to maximise investment, refund public services and boost social security if the economy is to grow.
Finally Starmer pledged to recruit 6,500 new teachers by “ending tax breaks for private schools” – a just redistribution from privilege to the schools that educate 93 per cent of our children.
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