Labour reveals first steps of a Starmer government
The Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer has announced the six first steps his government would make if he wins the General Election later this year. The promises include cutting NHS waiting lists and recruiting more teachers. But the overarching theme was stability and caution with the public finances.
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Sir Keir said the policies were a "down payment on change" and he blamed the economic crisis during Liz Truss's premiership for the fact that he was not being more ambitious.
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Someone willing to admit they changed a plan because circumstances changed is already massive improvement from the last 12 years.
All 6 pledges will be scrapped this coming Monday morning on sky news.😂😂😂
@ahmd-mi9964
20 күн бұрын
What a hypocrite more promises not even in the manifesto just like always he's backstabbing, back peddling, hypocrite, liar, he's a boring version of Blair and Boris and Rishi put together, Just when I thought he couldn't get any worse, Mandelson, Blair lovers comes out with these bunch of hypocrites who always voted with Tories check his track record, We have to get anyone other than the two main hypocritical liars parties, have independents please anything better than these two party hypocrite Elites bought and payed for by lobbies.
Genuine question, is anyone actually buying this?
@ahmd-mi9964
20 күн бұрын
For God and country hope people will check his records and see overwhelming evidences of him being pushed by Peter Mandelson Tony Blair lovers, he and his current teams are full of hypocrites who are just as bad as the Tories
@ahmd-mi9964
20 күн бұрын
What a hypocrite more promises not even in the manifesto just like always he's backstabbing, back peddling, hypocrite, liar, he's a boring version of Blair and Boris and Rishi put together, Just when I thought he couldn't get any worse, Mandelson, Blair lovers comes out with these bunch of hypocrites who always voted with Tories check his track record, We have to get anyone other than the two main hypocritical liars parties, have independents please anything better than these two party hypocrite Elites bought and payed for by lobbies.
@aleccap5946
20 күн бұрын
Stammer has more twists and turns then a snake
@sharpeipink123
20 күн бұрын
Only the sleeping dumbed down generationally brainwashed WOKIES that are left...everyone else is AWAKE!
@rob5944
20 күн бұрын
Once again nobody is saying how this is all going to be financed. Worst of all journalists don't make them. Furthermore I'm getting tired to the 'Lizz Truss wrecked the economy' tribe.
😂 The no jacket Sleeves rolled up No nonsense We mean business look They think you’re stupid
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
England's comatose because of the shite in their water
@ahmd-mi9964
20 күн бұрын
What a hypocrite more promises not even in the manifesto just like always he's backstabbing, back peddling, hypocrite, liar, he's a boring version of Blair and Boris and Rishi put together, Just when I thought he couldn't get any worse, Mandelson, Blair lovers comes out with these bunch of hypocrites who always voted with Tories check his track record, We have to get anyone other than the two main hypocritical liars parties, have independents please anything better than these two party hypocrite Elites bought and payed for by lobbies.
@fuckbankers
20 күн бұрын
Pot belly
@AB-zl4nh
20 күн бұрын
The vast majority of people are financially illiterate. Most people think the economy is like a household budget. Unfortunately, I do think there's a major gap in the general population's knowledge.
@rob5944
20 күн бұрын
He's been to the To y Blair school of hand signalling.
The new tories eh? How many of his pledges has he gone back on before he even gets into power, the media love this guy
@Glasgow_kiss
20 күн бұрын
you dont understand, these 6 pledges get us to a point where we can enact the previous 5 pledges that took over from the 10 abandoned pledges he made to bribe a win to become leader.
@hassan_2478
20 күн бұрын
@@Glasgow_kiss how many years wiill that take? All b.s trust me he just another tory
@keiranmorrisart
20 күн бұрын
@Glasgow_kiss why do you believe they aren't lying
@hassan_2478
20 күн бұрын
@@keiranmorrisart the mandate he started with when he put his name in hat to replace corbyn look at that he has done u turn on every single one of them, he refuses to allow anyone who been kicked out of party due to there views if they left wing, supporters of Palestine he threatens to kick anyone out too
@hohohohehehe6910
20 күн бұрын
He answered that question, if you can be bothered to watch it
They're just 'new Tories '.
@gavinsmith9564
20 күн бұрын
Starmer has even adopted the far right Tory Brexit.
@Berry-fr5wj
20 күн бұрын
Tory B
@MurphyOCP-001
20 күн бұрын
Honestly sick of you Tory bots spouting the same old sh*t.
@thl205
20 күн бұрын
Imagine still believing this. We could’ve stopped the Tories and had a completely different path in 2015. Yet all I heard was “both parties are the same”. Absolute nonsense. If you remember Ed Miliband would’ve increased NHS spending, implemented a mansion tax, preserved our membership of the EU, nationalized the railways, and become the first major country to recognize Palestine. Your viewpoint is so self-destructive.
@Zarken26
20 күн бұрын
@@thl205 So, just more leftist cancer... I see no improvement upon what the Tories have inflicted upon this country. Both are just two different brands of authoritarian leftist control freaks.
Trust more professional Liars. Two sides of the same coin
@arthuroldale-ki2ev
20 күн бұрын
Counterfeit coin at that!
@Lenny2Lux
19 күн бұрын
Two cheeks of the same backside!
I voted Labour all my life. I ain't buying this from starmer. Will be voting another party
@ahmedzahir2865
20 күн бұрын
Vote green 🌏
@MurphyOCP-001
20 күн бұрын
Enjoy your Tory government
@Truth_Seeker_UK
20 күн бұрын
@@MurphyOCP-001 Keir is a Tory
@sharpeipink123
20 күн бұрын
ONLY TRUE CLEAN HONEST VOTE IS A NO VOTE...DONT WASTE YOUR TIME & ENERGY ON THIS CRIMINAL NETWORK! x
@Glasgow_kiss
20 күн бұрын
@@Truth_Seeker_UK sir keef
1. Say I'm better than Corbyn. 2. Say Israel needs to do all "she" can to defend "herself". 3. Remind people that I'm better than Corbyn. 4. See what family benefits can be further cut. 5. ????? 6. Profit.
@sharpeipink123
20 күн бұрын
100% He is a Rothschild ..deep state player....a liar...deciever ...con-artist and thief.. Never forget he covered up for Saville..........NEVER TO BE TRUSTED!!!
@pietrostavastano2356
20 күн бұрын
Where this obsession with Israel come from?
@Glasgow_kiss
20 күн бұрын
@@pietrostavastano2356 labour friends of israel, of which he and most of his front bench are members and get donations and paid holidays from.
@pietrostavastano2356
20 күн бұрын
@@Glasgow_kiss good.Better than Friends of Hamas
@Bungle-UK
20 күн бұрын
All sounds good to me.
What is astonishing is that people will vote, and may well even elect, a politician who offers policies which anyone can see are guaranteed failures.
@sonofsomerset1695
18 күн бұрын
Because there are so many tribal voters that always vote for the same side no matter what, just trying to win social media gloating rights over the opposition. Plus the media like to keep the corrupt two party system propped up because they have control over them.
he is a liar, the new Nick Clegg
@Wassup-Doc
17 күн бұрын
The first thing he needs to figure out is what a woman is
@Dacheerio
12 күн бұрын
ah yes the most important issue to you is what someone elses gender is
Might as well be written on a sheet of toilet paper, a bland nothingness, the card and Starmer both
@Multimine
14 күн бұрын
Everything in life is a trade off, his lack of charisma may seem uninspiring on the surface, but it's getting things done that's most important. Politicians that are all show never live up to their expectations, would rather have a 'bland' adult at the helm any day.
@amadfook3r
13 күн бұрын
at least if it was written on a piece of toilet paper it would be useful to someone
@amadfook3r
13 күн бұрын
@@Multimine oh go edit the gaurdian
Don't worry, they'll cancel them all tomorrow.
He speaks just like Blair. He's absolutely modelled himself on the Liar.
@Epicgeezer
20 күн бұрын
Bliar is mentoring him on the sidelines
@KingAgniKai
20 күн бұрын
Well, Blair DID win elections, so maybe that's it
@stupot008
20 күн бұрын
Blair was the last decent prime minister.
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
Thatcher said her best achievement was Blair
@ehnowthen
19 күн бұрын
He is Blair's puppet
Its a 'No' from me !!
@Deathwish026
20 күн бұрын
so you choose conservatives ? because thats all the choice we have..
@johnregan2443
18 күн бұрын
@@Deathwish026 when the opposition is this Labour --? Yes.
All six scraped next week
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
4 of his 10 pledges he stole the labour leadership on seems to have been scrapped
@robertyoung8785
20 күн бұрын
When he said COUNTRY FIRST,I thought ISRAEL ,
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
@@robertyoung8785 50 grand is alot to pay back to Labour friends for Israel if he disobeys them.
@MurphyOCP-001
20 күн бұрын
How original. Now jog on.
@robertyoung8785
20 күн бұрын
@@MurphyOCP-001 try making an intelligent response, though I doubt it.
he's got such David Brent energy
@TheWebstaff
20 күн бұрын
😂
Can’t watch this, it’s an insult to my intelligence
This is the opposition and future government? No hope
They couldn't deliver a pizza....
@Laughs_Loudest
20 күн бұрын
Well said! Hence why this country needs foreigners
@songscoops4205
20 күн бұрын
@@Laughs_Loudest the country's addiction to cheap foreign labour
32,000 schools in the uk. education is devolved in wales, NI and Scotland. that leaves 24,000 schools in england. and he is hailing 6500 teachers as a vote winner? thats 1 teacher for every 3.5 schools.
@mrmeldrew693
20 күн бұрын
My local secondary school currently has seven teaching vacancies up on the website!
@lal2300
16 күн бұрын
There will be more when they have completed their DEI training and banner waving classes!
I see Tony Blair's making a comeback 🤣
@TheWebstaff
20 күн бұрын
Well he's a lawyer by trade so hopefully he won't commit any war crimes for our American friends. 😂
@ChrisKeziahHyde
20 күн бұрын
@@TheWebstaff don't hold your breath. He'll dance to any tune the right wing press tell him to dance to, so he would probably follow America into any conflict.
@Glasgow_kiss
20 күн бұрын
@@TheWebstaff you mean like condoning genocidal acts?
I wouldn't buy a used car from Starmer. He is a fraud.
@earnestequivocation6250
15 күн бұрын
Who would you vote for assuming the ultra fraudulent Tories are also obviously out of the question?
@YorkshiremanReacts26
14 күн бұрын
@@earnestequivocation6250 Whichever right wing party is running. Left wing progressivism has destroyed my country for long enough. 😑😡😤
And still no policies 🤷♂️
Six steps he’ll never adhere to.
I already have hope thanks. I hope Labour don’t get into Government.
@LayLoow
20 күн бұрын
I like the way you think 😂
@user-lh3si8sl8o
20 күн бұрын
They will. Anything better than the Tories.
God help us if Labour get into government again.
@martinpatterson3417
20 күн бұрын
They're really not that much different to the Tories at this point. It's just a different coloured rosette.
@user-ke8gx4zc9s
20 күн бұрын
@@martinpatterson3417 No my friend. The socialists are authoritarian in their approach. They sell themselves as liberal and for the working man and woman. But they are the ones who want to destroy this nation and deliver it into the hands of the WHO and the EU. I hope people can see that.
@Truth_Seeker_UK
20 күн бұрын
@@martinpatterson3417 slow decline Tories, rapid decline Labour
@user-dq6nj1zv9h
20 күн бұрын
We will never get labour out , they import more labour voters every week
@cun7us
20 күн бұрын
They will at the next general election.
Tory boy Starmer not known as Mr flip flop for nothing with breaking pledges.
Yes, lets change our Country!!! Because we stink from here to high end!!! Not just in the UK ... but all over the world!!! GE ... NOW!!!
@stewartmcintosh1073
20 күн бұрын
Think about it with a shows up were education system is completely useless brexit doesn't work yes brexit brexit found out your politicians are all useless people that's the reason how politicians wanted to be in Europe because they can blame Brussels for everything no they cannot blame anybody bar themselves and they do not like it anymore
It is a load of Bla Bla Bla.....Or should I say Blair Blair Blair....
Gosh this interview is so bad for Starmer: He thinks the UK needs "stability" i.e. state pro quo, in another words, no change, but what the people in the UK need is a big change for a big improve asap - this is why people want Labour to replace Conservative in the coming election. The UK and its people needs investment, not financial austerity, to get better after 14 years of conservative's money cutting.
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
Stability ie Conservatism.
@richardwilson57
12 күн бұрын
We have never had a larger tax take and public sector in post war history ……. Please explain how that statement of fact is austere?
@ScottishRoss27
12 күн бұрын
@@richardwilson57 Scotland generates more tax per capita than the RUK. 6,3% more per capita last year.
@richardwilson57
11 күн бұрын
What’s your point? Scottish independence required?
@ScottishRoss27
11 күн бұрын
@@richardwilson57 Yes to capitalise on the UK via getting back into the EU Market
Keir Starmer is such a funny guy! His jokes had me in stitches
their pledge is to be not as bad as the Tories...... what ambition
More Pakistanis, More Indians, More Africans, More Chinese, More Albanians, More Kurds...
@user-dq6nj1zv9h
20 күн бұрын
More Nigerians , more Bangladeshi and probably more Ukrainians , all holding their hands out for Freebies
@larrydickman5936
20 күн бұрын
What about the they/them community? Why do we always get ignored, are we not important? We, too, would like to seek asylum in the UK 🇬🇧.
@larrydickman5936
20 күн бұрын
@user-dq6nj1zv9h, what about the they/them community?
Labour offer absolutely nothing
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
Not with public sector debt at the same size as the economy, What's needed is for the UK to disband itself after paying of all foreign debt, writing of all public sector debt and go our own ways.
@jn4126
20 күн бұрын
@@ScottishRoss27 Peoples republic of Yorkshire here we go!
@MrMarshmelloBoi
20 күн бұрын
They offer the future.
@fuckbankers
20 күн бұрын
More austerity
@Berry-fr5wj
20 күн бұрын
I disagree , more woke , more immigration and more misery
I've never seen a man as unconvincing as starmer. Surely no one is taken in by this twaddle.
More pledges.
Beers Smarmer's - "Six steps into the abyss"!
Laser focus 😂😂😂
@ahmd-mi9964
20 күн бұрын
Hypocrite thinks words will cover his track record of voting with the Tories on most issues, He's pushed by Peter Mandelson Blair lovers idiologs of new hypocrite labour not the traditional working class labour
@richardwherry4896
20 күн бұрын
Yeah like those cats chasing their tails trying to catch a laser pointer.
@TheWebstaff
20 күн бұрын
As Goldfinger famously said. "No Mr Bond I expect you to die."
Starmer is owned by the WEF
Question Starmer all you want but it's really not good enough to do this report without listing the six pledges both in narration and on screen.
STARMERGEDDON IS ON THE WAY! You lucky old Brits!!
If that’s “Labour’s top team” we are in more trouble than I thought. Any team which has Wes Streeting as a member is definitely far from “top”.
Thank you for coming out with this AFTER my paper 1 🙏🏾🙏🏾
@paulkrugman359
14 күн бұрын
lol
Get ready for higher taxes and just let anyone in the country legally. They wont need to come in the boats
Says it all that his dad was a tool maker! And what tool he made!
@LayLoow
20 күн бұрын
He was the last spanner 🔧 he made 😂
Sunak had a pledge of 5 steps, that didn’t work very well did it?!!
@lal2300
16 күн бұрын
Well 3 he is on track with, one has stalled (NHS waiting lists) which is due to the failed ‘biggie’ stopping the boats!
Sir nob starmer
@RealDareel
19 күн бұрын
Sir kid starver
I left the UK to teach abroad after being stabbed and having my knee dislocated and nothing happening in either case, infact being told to expect that sort of injury in teaching and after 28 years I have spent the last 6 years of my life actually teaching and not behaviour managing. Don't expect teachers to stay unless you can sort the behaviour and attitudes of students and their parents.
Political pledges are something politicians give in order to be elected - and which they run from when they are elected.
Nothing about investing in UK industry like tech? Will the uk just be allowed to fall behind? FYI Tories also have no such plan
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
All the brains and new industries are up here
@lal2300
16 күн бұрын
Er! Tories plans on this have been very successful- The data shows the number of UK tech incorporations was up 11% to 13,802 in Q1 2024, from 12,441 in Q1 2023, and rose 4.4% on the previous quarter (13,218). This follows a record-breaking year in 2023 with 51,017 new tech incorporations.
@Thedarkknight2244
13 күн бұрын
@@lal2300 this is true with Boris’ levelling up strategy. However, a lot of big biotech companies are still leaving the London stock exchange to make New York there primary home for listing. My brother works for Arm, and they left for New York because the gov didn’t provide any incentive for them to stay and develope here. These are the people who make the chips for the iPhone btw - would’ve been huge to keep them here
@ScottishRoss27
5 күн бұрын
@@Gron257 Scotland has a trade surplus in goods, England has a massive trade deficit in goods.
Gypsy Rose Lee told me that on his first day in office Starmer will say that 'He didn't appreciate how bad the country's finances were' so every single promise he made during the campaign is officially scrapped, and tax rises will soon be announced for working class people as business investment is set to fall off a cliff edge.
Pointless
At least he was honest, and that is very rare in politics
And you force private education users into the public sector which further increases the shortage. No clue.
These red tories are shameless, at least the blue ines are who they say
So ending zero hour contracts, stopping channel crossers, making houses more affordable and preventing rich landlords from buying up homes and renting them out to multiple not-well-off young people are not part of your first steps in power Sir Keir?.... Still not got my vote yet then.
Vague and with no timescales - pointless is the word.
As a life long Labour voter, I am not even listening. Vote Reform
@user-lh3si8sl8o
20 күн бұрын
So who do suggest running the country? Farage that Idiot who is mainly resposible for the mess we are in?
Well, I never heard a jot about what Labour will do.
@TheWebstaff
20 күн бұрын
Hey if they are better than the tories who gutted the civil services that's going to be an improvement.
The dark cloud that is Labour beckons 🤦♂️
From the self-consciously rolled up sleeves (an obvious visual metaphor for hard work) to the Blairite 'pledge card' retread, I found this pre-election launch less than compelling, and I am a Labour supporter!
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
Labour is Conservative now
Starmer is the perfect advert for contraception
Honest truth.. skilled workers running away to warmer countries with better wages and benefits. Here is a joke.
Did they report what the 6 steps are?
Labour will enable Sharia law in the UK.
@Freedom4Palestine3672
20 күн бұрын
Lol, that's hilarious. I'll forgive your ignorance for your unintentional entertainment.
@kriskalpa
20 күн бұрын
@@Freedom4Palestine3672 how can you free somewhere that doesn't exist?
So what are your policies and how will you deliver them?
Already saving money by leaving those pledge cards unlaminated
Splash the cash on what is needed not private contracts and more perks and benefits for the rich the Tories have wasted money and paid themselves at the same time
Could we be seeing the first honest politician not promising what can’t be delivered I think most would rather be told the truth
I'd like to know how he wants to retain teachers. He's first got to recognise why they are leaving the profession in droves and then bring in a dramatic culture change to our education system.
There is a reason for the no fixed deadlines.........
End of the shaft London boy!
if schools were able to discipline children, teachers wouldn't want to leave.
Reminds me of a smaller, more disposable version of the Edstone 😂
As the famous X files said "trust no one" especially politicians
The Labour Party: it is (quite literally) the *least* we can do
I want to hear more about the Great British Energy Company. How are they going to take the UK assets of EON and EDF for example.
@ScottishRoss27
20 күн бұрын
Not going to happen, the big 6 won't allow it
I was at secondary school in 1996 and my Maths teacher was Portuguese. He could barely speak English. UK has been failing us for the last 30 years. Up the democracy
I wouldn't trust Starmer the Supine to tell me the time
What happens when we keep “taxing the rich” and they leave and take their businesses elsewhere where?
looking at the labour party is like looking at the muppets have actually come to life !
Without wide scale reformation across the public sector, regulations, taxation laws etc nothing will change
i know labour aint that much better guys but after 14 years i am willing to give them a chance to see if things can get better.
Something about Starmer just makes me laugh ……
First ''steps''.....coming from a guy who's broken most of his pledges.
I don't understand the negativity of the interviewer at 3:48 . Surely if the shortfall is halved, that is good, no? They would be an incoming government. What use is there making a more ambitious promise if they can't deliver it. If they have this goal of halving the shortfall and they breeze past it and do better, then that's good, is it not? Whereas if they promise to completely erase the shortfall and fail to meet that target they will be criticised. Sometimes you just can't win with journalists.
He's developing the Blair hand wave style. Better watch him closely.
The literal only reason Starmer is becoming PM is due to fact he is simply here at the right time. He has no leadership qualities or beneficial factors. I don't agree with Boris on much if anything but he was certainly right calling Starmer a bollard.
FIX Education NHS Waiting list Cost of living- good -heating bills travel Housing NEEDED desperately reform landlords Immigration /visa changes
As demented as the ‘Ed stone’. Anybody remember that?
Wish you best of your luck and success
Will he pinky promise that he will keep them?
Keir if you are reading this, make me a specific promise and I will vote for you. But if you don't deliver I get every penny you have! Give it to me in writing.
I wonder where these magical teachers are going to come from.
@lal2300
16 күн бұрын
Imported mullah’s 🤨!
Disaster waiting to happen!
Vote Reform or dont vote for any of them
Carry on cutting ?...you repulse me
That's the way to go. Tell the country you'll be like a newborn learning to walk. Safe hands smh…
Let's face it, we've been voting for the same two parties for decades. Has anything changed? No. I cannot with clear consciousness vote for either of them. Labour will win, they are the biggest opposition but I cannot help but think that a 3rd party should get in.