Keir Starmer speech will be live here in about five minutes labour.org.uk/a-new-chapter/
Dunno about this music. Sounds like the start of a superhero trailer.
Starmer constructing a case against market-knows-best ideology here, and building one for state intervention to reduce inequality.
Is it gripping, soaring rhetoric? No. But this speech is more about positioning rather than messaging. Starmer is planting himself firmly against post-covid austerity.
That's correct on its own terms: morally and economically. But I think it's also correct strategically. The Tories are divided, in parliament and with their new voters, on austerity. Labour is not. It puts the leadership and its activist base on the same side.
In the US, Biden is currently pursuing a $1.9 trillion stimulus. During the financial crash, Obama barely managed $787 billion. The debate has fundamentally changed. And it's not clear the Tories have changed with it.
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