Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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Step one. Our National Wealth Fund. Standing with business. Ready to invest in the critical infrastructure we need. The battery gigafactories, the clean British steel, the ports that can finally handle large industrial parts. More growth, more demand, more jobs. Honestly – what can you say about a Prime Minister who goes to Manchester to cancel Manchester’s train line? The self-declared champion of motorists, who had to borrow a shop worker’s car for his photo op. A man who keeps a close watch on the cost-of-living crisis – from the vantage point of his short-haul helicopter. If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month.

That’s why we hold out the hand of partnership to business. Champion the need for a competitive tax regime. Understand that private enterprise is the only way this country pays its way in the world. Coupled with Starmer’s campaign promises that the 2017 Labour manifesto was the party’s “foundational document” and the warning, “ don’t trash the last four years”, anyone who claims there is no dishonesty if the pledge is indeed dropped is being deceitful themselves. verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ That’s why we’ll set up a National Wealth Fund. Work hand in glove with the private sector to rebuild this country. But as we share the risk, we must also share the rewards. So we will make sure that the British people retain a stake in our investments.

And conference, step four, a new mindset. Because when an opportunity is there to be won, you have to take it. Clean British energy is cheaper than foreign fossil fuels. That means cheaper bills for every family in the country. But also a chance to make us more competitive across the board. Countries like America are using this gift to create manufacturing jobs the like of which we haven’t seen for decades. And they’re not the only ones. The next election will be a fight – against the Tories and the SNP

I grew up working class. I’ve been fighting all my life. And I won’t stop now. I’ve felt the anxiety of a cost-of-living crisis before. And until your family can see the way out, I will fight for you. That’s my mission and we will do it. The challenge of change remains. But nonetheless, for the first time in a long time we can see a tide that is turning. Four nations that are renewing. Old wounds of division exploited by the Tories and the SNP beginning to heal. So let the message from Rutherglen ring out across Britain. Labour serves working people in Scotland because Labour serves working people across all these islands. There’s nothing more important, no distractions, no higher cause. That’s who we stand for. What we stand for. Our argument for Britain. People are looking to us because they want our wounds to heal. And we are the healers. People are looking to us because these challenges require a modern state. And we are the modernisers. People are looking to us because they want to build a new Britain. And we are the builders. Rishi Sunak and the shallow men and women of Westminster. Unable to see, unable to listen, unable to stand in your shoes and serve this country. And they won’t change. They can’t change. Couldn’t change even in the pandemic when our country came together to follow rules. Rules that they set. And they broke. If we ignore appeals for the status quo on private school tax breaks or an outdated national curriculum, then we can have mental health staff in every school. More expert teachers in the classroom. More creativity, speaking skills, confidence. Shatter the class ceiling at source.

And conference – it will be a fight. The SNP will re-group, of course they will. Once again they will wave away the lessons of history. Try to present nationalism as a bridge to the world. We have to remind them it can barely provide a ferry to the Hebrides. And conference, this new path can only be walked by a new party. A changed Labour Party. No longer in thrall to gesture politics. No longer a party of protest. A party of service. Rebuilt. Renewed. Reconnected to an old partnership. A bargain. That we serve working people as they drive our country forward. Where is their minimum wage? Where’s their Sure Start? Crime down by a third. More students than ever. Devolution. The shortest NHS waiting times in history. Half a million out of child poverty. Peace in Northern Ireland. I’m not going to do the whole list. I haven’t got time. But isn’t the contrast stark? 13 years of ‘things can only get better’ versus 13 years of ‘things have only got worse’.Scotland can lead the way to a Labour government. But be under no illusions. We must earn every vote. And we must understand that the Scottish people are not just looking at us. They’re also looking at Britain. Change the plan you will roll onto at any time during your trial by visiting the “Settings & Account” section. What happens at the end of my trial? Because there are two stories of the past 13 years. A Westminster of chaos and crisis. Five Prime Ministers in seven years. And then the other side a Britain, where working people never let each other down. In fact, whenever they were asked, they dug deep for this country. Came together for this country. That’s the cruellest cost of these 13 years of decline. That a government this weak can winnow the confidence of a proud nation. Undermine our foundations with the gnawing rot of despair. A sense that government cannot achieve great things. That Britain cannot achieve great things. Some people say to me: “It’s about honesty, isn’t it? We were lied to. These politicians are liars.” But do you know, that’s not it. Well – maybe it is for one of them… But for people like Rishi Sunak it’s more that they cannot see the country before them. The walls of Westminster are so high. The view that your lives, your services, your future – are just pieces on their board. That is so deeply ingrained in their mindset. They have no way to understand what you’ve been through. Labour’s own focus groups are littered with voters complaining about Labour moaning all the time without offering their own clear solutions. Powered by the analysis of Starmer’s chief strategist, the former pollster Deborah Mattinson, the leadership believes that Labour’s chances of winning an election depend on economic credibility – not unwise – but that is defined by being seen as “pro-business”. In meetings and dinners with business leaders, Starmer emphasises “wealth creation”. His team believe that Labour under Ed Miliband – let alone Corbyn – was afflicted by this failure, even though post-2015 defeat polling found 42% of voters felt Labour “is too soft on big business and the banks”, with 22% dissenting. It is monstrous that the media baits Labour with relentless questions about trans people’s genitalia, deploying one of the country’s most vulnerable minorities as political fodder to divide the opposition, but why is it so effective? Because with an absence of vision, culture-war baiting can easily fill the vacuum instead.