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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Toby Helm and Michael Savage

Keir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’

Keir Starmer
‘The left has to start caring a lot more about growth, about creating wealth, attracting inward investment and kickstarting a spirit of enterprise’: Keir Starmer. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

Labour will only succeed in winning power and rebuilding Britain if it prioritises economic growth, wealth creation and radical reform of public services over reckless spending promises, says Keir Starmer.

With four days to go before a crucial set of parliamentary byelections, the Labour leader delivers the most robust defence to date of his strategy for returning his party to power after 13 years, in an exclusive article for the Observer. Starmer takes on, directly, those who say his agenda is dull and uninspiring, insisting that the hard grind of rebuilding economic credibility must come first, as opposed to Labour retreating to its normal “comfort zone” of promising “vast sums of money”.

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