Labour launches national election campaign

Keir Starmer is launching Labour’s national election campaign declaring that ‘a vote for Labour is a vote to support our nurses’.

Claiming that a vote for Labour in this year’s national elections is a vote ‘to support our nurses, to rebuild social care and to reward our key workers’, Starmer will Arn against voting for a Conservative Party that is cutting nurses’ pay, cutting spending on the NHS and raising taxes on families.

The Labour leader will use his speech to criticise the Conservatives for having ‘spent a decade weakening the foundations of our country and only offering the country more of the same.’ And he will accuse the Scottish National Party of being ‘too busy fighting among themselves to fight for the Scottish people.’

Starmer will say: “Since Angela and I were elected eleven months ago, Labour’s changed. We’re reconnecting with the British people – in every region and nation of the United Kingdom and we’re working hard to rebuild trust.

“There’s a long way to go but I’m incredibly proud of what we’ve achieved. Whether that’s rooting out the anti-Semitism that had poisoned this party or rebuilding our relationship with British business. This is a different Labour Party, under new leadership and we’re making a different offer to the British people.

“Under my leadership, and with our great local candidates across the country, Labour offers a very different route to recovery. Labour’s changing. Our priorities are your priorities: securing the economy, protecting the NHS, rebuilding Britain.

“So, if you want to support our nurses. To rebuild social care. And to reward our key workers, then vote Labour. My mum was a nurse, my sister was a nurse, my wife works for the NHS. I know how tough this year has been for our NHS and I know that now, more than ever, is the time to give our key workers a proper pay rise. Every vote in this election is a chance to show the Conservatives that the British people value our NHS and our key workers so much more than this government does.”