Labour Launches Manifesto With Pledge on ‘Wealth Creation’

Published on June 13, 2024

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer today launched the party’s full General Election manifesto in Manchester, telling a heckler they had “given up on being a party of protest. We want to be a party of power.” After the climate change activist was removed, Sir Keir acknowledged that there was no “rabbit out of the hat” in the manifesto—which contained no new policy announcements—as he pointed instead to his commitment not to raise income tax or VAT. Sir Keir said he aimed to “turn the page decisively” on what he called 14 years of “Conservative chaos” as he set out Labour’s stall....

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