Keir Starmer: ‘If you want change, you have to vote for it’
Keir Starmer: ‘If you want change, you have to vote for it’
The Labour leader on how he is determined to make a material difference to people’s lives if his party wins the general election
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When long time Tory donors like Lord Harris and John Cauldwell switch to Labour …. It’s not because things are going to change.
People always say this stuff. Then Labour win and we get things like the NHS or the minimum wage. Next election, they go right back to saying nothing will change. I'm much more interested by the people trying to get things done than the kneejerk cynicism that nothing will happen anyway.
Perhaps people say it because they understand political reality ?
Captains of industry don’t donate to the Labour Party because they want a higher minimum wage, and increased taxation to fund public services - quite the opposite In fact.
They might not want those things, but the 'Captains of industry' who donated to Labour in 1997 helped deliver those things. And that's just reality, political or not.
Pretty sure that Labour didn't deliver the NHS in 1997. What they did deliver was saddling the NHS with billions in PFI debt that has gone a not inconsiderable distance to putting it into the state it's in now.
They delivered the minimum wage in '97, which is what I was asked about, alongside countless other policies which made the country better.