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18 February 2021updated 23 Jul 2021 1:01pm

Keir Starmer delivers his most important speech to date

The Labour leader is attempting to frame the economic argument that the party will be making for years to come. 

By Ailbhe Rea

Keir Starmer will deliver the most important speech of his leadership this morning, as he hopes to frame the argument that Labour will be making for the next few years leading up to the general election, and potentially well into the end of the decade. The economics-focused speech, which is timed to look ahead to next month’s Budget, will offer a “first glimpse of Starmerism”, as one aide breathlessly puts it, setting out the Labour leader’s personal analysis of what has gone wrong in the past decade and his vision for what a Labour government would do differently. 

[Hear Ailbhe discuss Starmer’s speech on the New Statesman podcast]

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