Watch Keir Starmer’s own cabinet FORGET his mind-numbingly long list of ‘foundations, missions, milestones & pillars’
As he struggled to understand Labour’s top goals and the Government’s expanding list of promises, WES Streeting squirmed.
Following the PM’s third attempt to outline his agenda, the Health Secretary was put through a Never Mind the Ballots quiz.
Mr. Streeting boldly started listing Labour’s main tenets, stating: It’s border security, economic security…
After an uneasy pause of a few seconds, he blurted out “national security” at last.
The slip followed Sir Keir’s announcement of six new benchmarks to gauge the success of the five missions he launched in February 2023, all of which were purportedly based on three fundamental pillars: national security, secure borders, and economic stability.Civil servants are instructed to give priority to the milestones, which are intended to provide labor a driving purpose.
However, the new “Plan for Change” has drawn criticism, with some claiming that Labour has diluted important platform promises and changed the objectives.During a speech at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire, Sir Keir said his government would set the UK up for “at least 95 per cent cleanpower” by 2030.However, this does not meet Labour’s electoral pledge to have a completely carbon-free electricity grid in the same time frame.
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Labour’s pledge to achieve the G7’s highest sustained growth has also raised more questions.
The audacious vow, which was first touted as a pillar of Sir Keir’s vision, has since been relegated to a more modest “aim.”
However, Chancellor Rachel Reeves argued that Britain may surpass the United States and take the lead in the G7 in terms of economic growth by the end of the decade in an interview with Harry Cole, Political Editor of The Sun.
Ms. Reeves dismissed skepticism by stating that she is quite hopeful about Britain’s future, saying: “It’s a mission.” that two years ago, we set out. And those missions are still out there.
“We want consumers to be able to feel that growth in their pockets. Therefore, the goal we have set for ourselves today is for people to feel better off and have their earnings increase because, at the end of the day, the goal of expanding our economy is to make working people feel better off. And I’m committed to making it happen.”
Regarding plans to decarbonize the system, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband added: “It won’t be watered down.” What’s very intriguing about it, in my opinion, is that when we initially introduced it a few years ago, many believed it was impossible.
“Now when you talk to industry, when you look at the judgment of the independent national energy system operator, they say it’s really hard, but it is achievable.”
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch responded to the speech by claiming that the emergency reset by the prime minister demonstrated that Labour had not been prepared for governing.
She also asserted that less than one-third of Labour’s 13,000 neighbourhood police are genuinely new police personnel and that the government’s expensive energy decarbonisation plans had been diluted.
Ms. Badenoch went on to say: This relaunch cannot conceal the fact that the government is incompetent.
While Reform UK leader Nigel Farage criticized the lack of a target on immigration, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Daveys claimed the Prime Minister was just shifting the goalposts and called the lack of a target for G appointments concerning.
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In addition to the three foundations, we currently have six milestones, five missions, and six first steps.
However, the prime minister went to the opulent Pinewood studios to announce the benchmarks by which he hopes to be evaluated.
The prime minister is making every effort to bring about change, whether it’s by improving living standards, increasing the number of police officers, or cutting down on NHS wait times.
However, a lot of people will claim that this is only a mission: impossible.
The Prime Minister is correct when he claims that the new benchmarks he established will enable the people to “hold our feet to the fire” and that doing so will benefit the nation in the long run.
Whitehall’s declaration that civil officials “are comfortable in the tepid bath of managed decline” is another significant snake-up he wants to see.
He takes aim at the NIMBYs who are impeding projects, and one of his new pledges was to implement 150 significant infrastructure projects this Parliament.
However, there was one glaring flaw in the plan: none of the six pledges used to evaluate him mentioned migration.
The public will want to see a more tangible solution, but Sir Keir believes he must “get to grips” with the issue of illegal migration and small boat crossings.
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