Keir Starmer warned today that frequent leadership changes are not in the “our national interest” and vowed he would still be in office in a year’s time.
In an interview with the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, the prime minister said he believed that the forthcoming elections in Scotland, Wales and England in May are not a “referendum” on his government adding
“ I was elected in 2024 with a five year mandate to change the country, that’s what I intend to do”
The next election is going to be unlike any election we have seen in this country”
“It’ll be a Labour government up against a very right wing proposition from Reform UK”
“Reform UK’s proposition is toxic divide”
The Prime Minister continued:
“We need to shoot down this idea that slogans, easy answers, quick fixes, shortcuts will fix th country. They didn’t fix it”
“Johnson pretended to drive a bulldozer through a wall saying that would get us £350m a week for the NHS. It didn’t happen”
“Farage pretended that leaving the EU would reduced immigration. The opposite happened”
“Liz Truss pretended that if you ignored all the financial institutions you could build the economy, everybody paid the price”
“We’re not going back to that. That’s the last thing this country needs”
Meanwhile Asked by Keunssberg “Is Trump making The International situation iworse?” Starmer replied “It is my responsibility to make sure our relationship with the US works.. I do get on with President Trump”
“He says we come from different political traditions”
“What it shows, if you value the partnership, you can work with people, even when you do have differences of views on various things”
“Our defence, security and intelligence with the US matters more than any other relationship in the world”
“It would not be in our national interest to weaken that in any way”
