Nigel Farage has given a damming verdict on Sir Keir Starmer’s speech announcing his “Plan For Change”
The Reform UK leader was speaking as the Prime Minister announced the six milestones, including plans to build 1.5 million new homes and to put “more police on the beat, stamping out anti-social behaviour in every community.”
The Clacton MP wrote on social media: “Keir Starmer’s milestones for government don’t include immigration or the exploding population. This reset offers no change and guarantees economic failure.”
Meanwhile Rupert Lowe, Reform MP for Great Yarmouth, said: “As someone who cares so passionately about our country, and desperately wants Britain to succeed – I am sorry to say, but Keir Starmer is simply not up to the job of Prime Minister. A man seriously out of his depth.”
The Reform UK has said Starmer’s speech ‘guarantees economic failure’
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The Prime Minister listed his six milestones after saying that a “strong foundation” of economic stability, and security measures had now allowed Labour to look ahead.
The first milestone to reach by the end of the Parliament is “higher living standards in every region of the country” with Sir Keir Starmer added the UK was aiming for the “highest sustained growth in the G7, so working people have more money in their pocket.”
The second is to build 1.5 million new homes, and the third to put “more police on the beat, stamping out anti-social behaviour in every community.”
Starmer’s fourth milestone is to give every child the “best start in life” with a record number of five-year-olds entering school “ready to learn”.
His fifth milestone is clean power by 2030, “so never again can a tyrant like Putin attack the living standards of working people.” The sixth and final milestone was to cut NHS waiting lists to 18 weeks between referral and treatment.