The British PM appealed to voters exhausted by years of political and economic turmoil with the message that better times are on the way.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer tried to shake off his image as a gloom-monger on Tuesday, but raised eyebrows after mistakenly referring to hostages held by Hamas as “sausages”.
Starmer capped the Labour Party’s annual conference – the party’s first one since winning a landslide election victory in July – with a speech arguing that things will be “tough in the short term”, but highlighting the light at the end of the tunnel. “Just because we all want low taxes and good public services, does not mean that the iron law of properly funding policies can be ignored,” Starmer said.He pledged to make “tough” decisions – code for public spending restraint and tax increases – to achieve economic growth to fund schools, hospitals, roads, railways and more. Starmer acknowledged some of those decisions would be unpopular, but added that “we will turn our collar up and face the storm”.
Cabinet minister Pat McFadden, who ran Labour’s election campaign, said the government would not be derailed by criticism.
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