Keir Starmer to say 'growth, growth, growth' will be Labour's economic priority

Keir Starmer will use a speech in Liverpool on Monday to say that the priorities for the subsequent Labour authorities might be “progress, progress, progress”.

Revealing plans for an Industrial Technique Council as a part of a wider speech on the economic system, the Labour chief is anticipated to say that beneath his occasion, progress could be “sturdy, safe and truthful”.

His go to to Liverpool comes as consideration is targeted on the Tory management contest and the race to Quantity 10, with the 2 candidates set to face-off in a televised BBC debate on Monday night.

Starmer will use the speech to sentence the file of the Conservative Authorities over the past decade, whereas additionally hitting out on the “Thatcherite cosplay” from Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss.

He'll say: “Whether or not it’s the price of dwelling or recovering from the pandemic, our economic system is weaker than its opponents. Much less resilient. Brittle. And in the end, we're all poorer for it.

“With me and with [shadow chancellor] Rachel Reeves, you'll at all times get sound funds; cautious spending; sturdy, safe and truthful progress.

“There might be no magic cash tree economics with us.”

Starmer will define his imaginative and prescient for an Industrial Technique Council, which Labour says might be positioned on a statutory footing, as a “everlasting a part of the panorama that units out strategic nationwide priorities that transcend the political cycle”.

It is going to, Sir Keir will say, maintain the Authorities accountable for decision-making.

The Labour chief can be anticipated to hit again at any suggestion that financial progress and the UK’s push for net-zero are incompatible.

“An economic system can develop and go away a few of its folks behind,” he'll say. “However a nation primarily based on contribution can not develop in that means.

“We won't be distracted by the siren calls – from the proper or the left – that say financial progress and net-zero don't go collectively.”

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