Keir Starmer accuses Tories of ‘beating the hope’ out of Britain as he kicks off election campaign
Sir Keir Starmer has fired the starting gun on what is set to be a gruelling year-long general election campaign, promising to “get Britain’s future back” after “14 wasted years” under the Conservatives.
The Labour leader set out plans to revive Boris Johnson’s failed levelling up agenda and promised to “give people hope that politics can change”.
Laying into the Conservatives’ record from David Cameron’s tenure to Rishi Sunak, Sir Keir said the Tories have “beat the hope out of people over the last 14 years”.
And he said: “. Hope that politics can change, that we can return to a
