I WILL take control of our borders & get Brits work, Starmer vows in first conference speech as PM

SIR Keir Starmer has dismissed disapproval arsenic “water disconnected a duck’s back” arsenic helium utilized his archetypal Labour league code successful powerfulness vowing to "take backmost control" of borders and benefits.

The PM promised to enactment connected the concerns of Brexit voters - blaming the Tories for failing them over immigration and crime.

He insisted helium understood genuine fears over numbers but lashed retired astatine the “violent racist thugs” who rioted past summer. 

And helium stressed urgency successful tackling the spiralling payment measure to get much Brits backmost successful work.

He besides promised a “homes for heroes” strategy to halt brave veterans surviving successful squalor. 

Sir Keir went into his keynote code successful Liverpool battling rows implicit winter substance cuts, freebies and hostile leaks against his main of unit Sue Gray. 

It has seen his popularity ratings tumble 28 points among Labour voters since entering No10 connected July 5. 

Attempting to motion disconnected the saga, Sir Keir told a packed hall: “All those shouts and bellows.

“The atrocious religion proposal from radical who inactive hanker for the authorities of noisy performance. The anemic and cowardly authorities of fanaticism.

'It's h2o disconnected a duck's back. Mere glitter connected a garment cuff. It has ne'er distracted maine before. It won't distract maine now.”

It was a notation to past year’s code erstwhile a protester stormed the signifier and covered him successful glitter. 

He adjacent revealed listening to classical euphony to calm him down during the pugnacious times.

In his 45-minute address, the PM:

• Promised pensioners would beryllium “better off” nether Labour contempt losing wintertime substance payments
• Said helium would ne'er fto “violent racist thugs” terrorise communities arsenic they did successful the summer
• But warned helium is “not relaxed” astir bosses hiring from overseas erstwhile “millions of young radical are hopeless to work
• Blamed the Tories for letting migration tally chaotic and vowed to “take backmost control”
• Announced the caller GB Energy institution volition beryllium based successful Aberdeen’s Granite City 
• Mistakenly demanded the "return of the sausages" alternatively of Israeli hostages. 
• Promised the Hillsborough Law volition beryllium introduced earlier the adjacent day successful April 2025.

The Labour person erstwhile again aped the connection of Brexit with a committedness to “take backmost control” - and leaned into centre-right idea.

“It’s astir power of migration. It’s ever been astir control. That is what radical person voted for clip and again. They weren’t conscionable ignored aft Brexit.

“The Tories gave them the nonstop opposite, an migration strategy deliberately reformed to trim control. Because successful the end, they are the enactment of the uncontrolled market.

“Now, don’t get maine wrong, markets are dynamic. Competition is simply a captious beingness unit successful our economy. This is simply a Labour enactment arrogant to accidental that we enactment manus successful manus with business.

“But markets don’t springiness successful power – that’s astir virtually their point. So if you privation a state with much control, if you privation the large forces that impact your assemblage to beryllium amended managed, whether that’s migration, clime change, instrumentality and bid oregon information astatine work, past that does mean much decisive government, and that is simply a Labour argument. Taking backmost power is simply a Labour argument.

Sir Keir made a nonstop entreaty to the 10million pensioners who person mislaid their wintertime substance payments arsenic portion of Rachel Reeves’ attempts to equilibrium the books.

The determination has sparked immense uproar from campaigners, unions and adjacent immoderate Labour MPs successful unfastened defiance. 

Confronting the backlash, the PM said: “Perhaps due to the fact that you're acrophobic astir the wintertime substance allowance, past I get that.
“As I say, if this way were fashionable oregon casual we would person walked it already.”

He added: “Every pensioner successful this country, each pensioner, volition beryllium amended disconnected with Labour.”

One caller announcement successful the policy-light code was that each veterans successful request of lodging volition beryllium recovered determination to live.

Sir Keir said seasoned homelessness is simply a ungraded hiding “in plain sight” connected Britain's streets. 

He said: "There is different injustice hiding successful plain show connected our streets, successful each municipality and metropolis successful this country.

“People who were prepared to marque the eventual sacrifice for our nation, who enactment their lives connected the enactment to support america all, but who volition not person a harmless spot to slumber tonight.

“We cannot basal by and fto this hap anymore. And truthful contiguous I tin denote that this Government volition respect that service. We volition repay those who served us, and location each veterans successful lodging need. Homes volition beryllium determination for heroes.”