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Sir Keir offers up change without cash and rebuilding without radicalism
An activist stands with Sir Keir after sprinkling him with glitter during his speech at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, October 10, 2023
CHANGE without cash and rebuilding without radicalism was the patchy prospectus offered to Britain by Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer today.
He will instead combine the qualities of a healer, a moderniser and a builder in Downing Street, he pledged in his Liverpool speech designed to answer the pre-election question “why Labour?”
“People want our wounds to heal and we are the healers,” he said.
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