Government to Take ‘Tough Decisions,’ Starmer Says

The Labour government will take “tough decisions” with “raw honesty,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday. Sir Keir made the remarks when asked about taxation, but he stressed they are not a prelude of some tax decisions that the government is about to announce. “We’re going to have to take the tough decisions and take them early,” the prime minister told reporters at his first press conference in Downing Street. “We will do that with a raw honesty. And that’s really what sat behind Wes Streeting’s description yesterday of the NHS as being broken,” he said. Mr. Streeting, who became health secretary on Friday after Labour won the general election, has said that his department’s policy is the national health service is “broken,” adding that it can’t be “fixed overnight.”...