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Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaks during his visit to the Backstage Centre, Purfleet, for the launch of Labour's doorstep offer to voters ahead of the general election, May 16, 2024

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer offered tiny solutions to huge problems today as he outlined the baby steps the party will take in office to address Britain’s crisis.

Dubbed “six first steps,” the policies overlap heavily with the Tory agenda and show the Labour leader ever-more channelling Tony Blair, even down to putting the policies on a pledge card.

Sir Keir launched the priorities in Essex surrounded by the shadow cabinet and with sundry endorsements, including one from a Bullingdon Club friend of Foreign Secretary David Cameron.

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