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Sir Keir Starmer will today tell the nation that creating wealth will be his top priority as Prime Minister as he launches the Labour Party’s manifesto in Manchester.
Mr Starmer will insist his party has a plan for economic growth as he sets out his election blueprint that includes policies to recruit more teachers, increase NHS appointments and toughened border security.
The Labour leader will also seek to capitalise on a poll last night that found most voters believed he performed better than Rishi Sunak in a Sky News’ leaders event at Grimsby Town Hall.
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Starmer to unveil manifesto at 11am
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We refuse to accept defeat on these things. So we do believe, for example, reform to the planning rules to get the infrastructure we need, the roads, the railways, the labs, the data centres, the one-and-a-half million new homes, that can make a difference to growth.
Labour market reforms, to make a better childcare offer to working parents so that they come back to work, that can make a difference to growth. Getting more of the long-term sick off benefits and into work could mean hundreds of thousands more people at work, matching emigration and skills policy, so that we do more to train our own workers, that can make a difference to growth.
Starmer to say creating wealth is ‘number one priority’
Wealth creation is our number one priority. Growth is our core business – the end and the means of national renewal.
The mandate we seek at this election is for economic growth. This changed Labour Party has a plan for growth. We are pro-business and pro-worker, the party of wealth creation.
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