Keir Starmer reside: Prime Minister provides main speech in try and fend off management problem
Keir Starmer will deliver a make-or-break speech this morning as he fights for his political survival.
The Prime Minister will vow to deliver strength through fairness with no half measures and put the UK back at the heart of Europe after Friday’s local elections mauling.
The PM is expected to say: “To meet the challenges that our country faces, incremental change won’t cut it. On growth, defence, Europe, energy – we need a bigger response than we anticipated in 2024 because these are not ordinary times. Strength through fairness. It’s a core Labour argument. And you will see those values writ large in the King’s Speech.”
But he faces a moment of peril after former Foreign Office Minister Catherine West threatened to challenge the Prime Minister over the weekend. She said yesterday: “I will hear what the Prime Minister’s got to say tomorrow and, then if I’m still dissatisfied, I will put out my email to the Parliamentary Labour Party, asking for names [to support a leadership bid]. And the reason is not for me. It’s for working people, because Labour is the only party that can beat Reform.”
