Keir Starmer Manifesto Launch: ’Turn The Page On 14 Years Of Tory Chaos’ | Full Speech

Sir Keir Starmer said voters had the chance to “turn the page decisively” on 14 years of “Conservative chaos” as he set out Labour’s plan for government. Launching his party’s General Election manifesto, Sir Keir said he had dragged Labour away from the “dead end of gesture politics” and it was now “time to change Britain”. He said that the UK was “still a great nation”, but it had lacked a “government that can match the ambition working people have”. The manifesto, launched at an event in Manchester, did not contain any surprise announcements beyond what Sir Keir has already set out. But instead it is aimed at reassuring voters that Labour can be trusted to grow the economy and “begin the work of national renewal”. The launch event was interrupted by a climate protester as Sir Keir began his speech, with the demonstrator swiftly removed. In his foreword to the document, Sir Keir said: “We must turn the page decisively on the Conservative ideas that have caused the ch