What would Labour do in power? This is the question Sir Keir Starmer tried to answer this morning as he appeared in Manchester for the launch of his party’s manifesto. Given Labour is currently over 20 points ahead in the polls and on course for a super-majority, this 136-page document (with no less than 33 photos of Starmer) is by far the most important of the manifestos to be published this week. Ahead of Starmer’s entrance, a song by Dua Lipa (the pop star is a Labour supporter) played in the background while a string of speakers, from Iceland boss Richard Walker to Nathaniel Dye, who has terminal cancer and blames NHS waiting lists for his illness escalating unnoticed, talked of the need for a Labour government.
Starmer is betting that he doesn’t need to tell voters any more before polling day to secure his arrival into 10 Downing Street.
In his speech, Keir Starmer made no apologies for publishing a document that contains little new policy.
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