SIR KEIR STARMER will promise that his government will do the “hard work” to “root out 14 years of rot” under the Conservatives in his speech today.

The Prime Minister is expected to suggest that last month’s far-right riots showed “the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure.”

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to raise taxes in her Budget onf October 30 after accusing the Tories of leaving a £22 billion shortfall in the public finances.

Labour has faced a barrage of criticism over his first major address to the public, with the SNP’s Kirsty Blackman accusing Sir Keir of “shamefull picking up where the Tories left off.”

She said of his planned speech: “Labour spent its entire election campaign not being straight with voters about their financial plans.

“And now Keir Starmer is being forced to admit the grim reality of what his Labour government means for households across the country.

“After 14 years of Westminster austerity hammering households, Labour have shamefully just picked up where the Tories left off and it is ordinary households who are being forced to pay the price.”

Sir Keir will pledge that his government represents a significant departure from the years of Tory sleaze, saying the location for the speech, in the Downing Street rose garden, demonstrated that change.

He will tell the invited apprentices, small-business owners and public servants: “This government won’t always be perfect, but I promise this: you will be at the heart of our government and in the forefront of our minds, at the centre of everything we do.”

Despite this, Sir Keir finds himself currently embroiled in a cronyism row after it emerged that Labour donor Lord Alli was given a pass to No 10 despite not having a formal job there.