Shadow chief treasury secretary Richard Fuller says Nigel Farage’s party must do more than just ‘point at problems’
- ‘We can’t just talk to the right’: what will Labour do now?
Keir Starmer has said he wants “national renewal” and that “change on that scale will take time”, in a Saturday op-ed for the Times.
The prime minister wrote:
In short I want national renewal. But that can only be built if people across the country have security in their lives and that will only happen if we have a secure economy, a secure health service and secure borders. Change on that scale will take time. But it is my focus, now and every day ahead.
The lesson of these elections isn’t that the country needs more politicians’ promises or ideological zealotry. It isn’t that there is some easy solution, as promised by our opponents. It’s that now is the time to crank up the pace on giving people the country they are crying out for.
I believe that when Labour does not meet that sweet spot, that expectation that people have of a Labour government, then they start to look in less favourable places for where that help comes from.
Yesterday, many people were searching for that response, to find that protection, to get that support. But, sadly, if Labour were not offering that, they would look in other places.
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