Starmer Targets Benefit Claimants With Welfare Reform Pledge

Sir Keir Starmer used his first Labour Party Conference speech as prime minister to hint at forthcoming tough measures on welfare reform, saying that the UK population must “face the storm” to come. Addressing an audience of Labour members, Starmer pledged there would be “no return to austerity” as orchestrated by the Conservatives for a decade from 2012, but he said there would have to be reform in order to “protect the welfare state.” In a speech heavy with soundbites but lighter on detail, the prime minister said the difficult decisions being taken by his government would result in “a country with its future back.”...