Thread by @BestForBritain

Here comes the policy from @Keir_Starmer

"Britain has the worst death toll in Europe. We have lost 133,000 people to Covid. Every one of them someone's mum, dad, sister, brother, friend."

"I know it was difficult. But the situation is worse than it needed to be." 1/

"And it wasn't just a failure of the govt over 18mo - it was a failure over 11 years."

"There are cracks in Britain's society and Covid seeped into them."

"An unfair tax hike that doesn't fix social care or clear the NHS backlog is not a plan." 2/

"There is no doubt that the NHS needs more money. And a Labour government will always fund the NHS properly. But the future can't just be about chasing more demand with more money."

"Today, average life expectancy is 80." This is "the biggest test in the history of the NHS." 3/

Starmer discusses shifting the priority of the NHS away from emergency care and towards prevention

Hints towards a wellbeing economy - or at least a wellbeing-driven NHS

Mental health support will be provided within a month. "Over 8,500 mental health professionals" recruited 4/

Multiple examples of technological advances in medicine - "putting the power of smart government behind" medical science. That is what care will mean in the future. This is how health will be remade." 5/

"Children on free school meals going hungry. There was u-turn after u-turn on school closures. The attainment gap between wealthy and poor students in exam results."

"If you can't level up our children, you're not serious about levelling up at all." 6/

"I want every parent in the country to be able to send their child to a great state school."

"The most ambitious school improvement plan in a generation."

"Education needs to do more than just recover. It needs to be pointed towards skill, towards work." 7/

"It's stupid to allow theatre, drama & music to collapse in state schools. We want every child to get the child to play competitive sport and play an instrument."

"Reinstate 2 weeks of compulsory work experience and guarantee every young person gets to see a careers advisor." 8/

"A curriculum for tomorrow" - adding digital skills to the core components of reading, writing and arithmetic.

"Ensure every child emerges from school ready for work and ready for life." 9/

"A scientific revolution is happening around us But if we don't have a government ready to remake the nation, we will be left behind."

"The millennial generation, clustered in low-paid jobs, will be the first generation to have less than the one that came before it." 10/

"Good business and good government are partners" says @Keir_Starmer. Anyone else have Johnson's "F*** business" rattling round their heads? 11/

Starmer pledges Labour will "invest a minimum of 3% of GDP in science and research & development."

"This is how we remake our nation. The good society and the strong economy as partners." 12/

"Talk is cheap. But progress isn't. If we want permission to create the good society, we have to win trust that we will create a strong economy." 13/

"A botched Brexit followed by Covid has left a big hole. The govt is learning that it's not enough to 'get Brexit done' - you need a plan to make Brexit work." 14/

"All spending will be scrutinised by an Office for Value for Money" says Starmer, throwing into sharp relief the crony contracts and VIP lane outrages of the past 18 months...15/

Now to climate change..."Time is short and we have a duty to act. But that obligation shouldn't daunt us - it should embolden us."

"If we delay action by a decade, the cost of climate transition will double. This urgency is why Labour will bring forward a Green New Deal." 16/

Includes:
- A climate investment pledge to cut substantial majority of emissions this decade
- Retrofit homes for energy efficiency
- Introduce Clean Air Act
- All govt action meeting Net Zero Pledge
- £28bn of capital investment for green transition per year for this decade 17/

Starmer firmly positioning Labour as "the party of the union".

"Because we're more progressive together. We're more secure together. We have a better position in the world together. We're greater as Britain than we would be apart." 18/

"We can win the next general election," says Starmer. Yes....with a #ProgressiveAlliance 19/