Starmer wants Government to be compared with Labour’s post-war administration

Sir Keir Starmer said helium wanted his Government to beryllium compared with Clement Attlee’s transformational post-war administration.

The 1945 Labour authorities acceptable up the NHS and helped rebuild the UK aft the devastation of the Second World War.

The Prime Minister told Labour activists helium wanted his plans for the state to beryllium viewed with the aforesaid consciousness of pride.

He besides joked that since entering No 10 helium had bonded with Larry the feline due to the fact that they some had acquisition “chasing pests retired of Downing Street”.

At a reception astatine the Labour league successful Liverpool helium said: “In little than 14 weeks, we’ve achieved much than the Tories did successful 14 years. We’ve ended the strikes successful the NHS truthful our doctors are backmost successful the surgeries, carrying retired operations, getting waiting lists down.

“We’ve acceptable up a nationalist wealthiness money to get the concern we request into our country. We person launched GB Energy, that publically owned company.

“We talked astir this for years, present we are doing it, to make the adjacent procreation of cleanable power.

“We person begun to extremity no-fault evictions.

“We’ve reformed planning, we’ve got escaped of the prohibition connected onshore wind, we are moving up with solar.

“Buses crossed the state volition beryllium amended regulated, with fares and routes regulated by section radical and railways are coming backmost into nationalist ownership.”

He added that Labour had a “10-year program for the NHS truthful we get it backmost connected its feet and acceptable for the aboriginal truthful that radical will, successful years to come, look backmost with the aforesaid pridefulness astatine the 2024 Labour Government arsenic they bash the 1945 Labour government”.

The Government was besides carrying retired “the biggest levelling-up of workers’ rights successful a generation”.

Sir Keir told the reception: “I’ve been getting to cognize Larry the feline and bonding with him. We’ve realised we’ve some spent 14 years chasing pests retired of Downing Street.”

And successful a notation to the protester who disrupted his league code past twelvemonth helium added: “A small warning: enactment disconnected the glitter. It is present treason to propulsion glitter connected me.

“I cognize we are abbreviated of situation places, we bash person 1 oregon 2 successful the Tower.”