Keir Starmer accused Whitehall of failing to do more when he challenged civil servants to hit a series of policy targets and deliver on 150 “major infrastructure projects”.
Ushering in “next season” for five-month olds of labor government, the prime minister urged a “profound cultural change from a degenerate mindset” and an unrelenting focus on action.
A successful delivery is the way to counter the rise of populist politics in the UK, which “feeds real concerns”, he said in what was called a landmark speech.
“Too many people in Whitehall are comfortable in a warm bath dealing with decline. You’ve forgotten, to paraphrase JFK, that you want to change, not because it’s easy but because it’s hard,” he said.
“Absolutely, when public confidence is so low, we must be careful about the promises we make. But across Whitehall and Westminster what is internal is to ‘say nothing’, ‘don’t try to be too ambitious’, ‘set goals that will happen anyway’.
Starmer laid six “thousand” stones to “give the British people the power to hold their feet to the fire”. they were
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Higher real household disposable income and gross domestic product (GDP) per capita by the end of this parliament, as part of a long-term plan to grow the G7 economy as quickly as possible.
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Built 1.5m homes in England and fast-tracking planning decisions on major financial projects less than 150 infrastructure.
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Putting the UK “on track” to achieve at least 95% clean power by 2030.
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Meeting the NHS standard 92% of patients in England do not wait more than 18 weeks for their choice of care.
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A record 75% of five-year-olds are ready to learn when they start school.
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A police officer appointed for each beat, and 13,000 extra neighborhood officers in England and Wales.
But he is under pressure because of immigration to include the defection as one of his milestones, and on the contrary he claims that some targets have been lowered.
The government’s plan to decarbonise the power grid by 2030 now targets “at least 95%” of clean power generation by 2030, it emerged on Thursday, prompting concerns about the range of targets.
Labor insisted on two consistent proposals, with Ed Miliband, the net secretary, saying the remaining 5% was due to the need to maintain strategic gas reserves.
The promise to deliver higher living standards by the next election did not come with a certain numerical sign. Starmer said growth should be “from everyone, everywhere,” with real disposable household incomes and per capita sales rising in every region of the nation.
Challenged by reporters at the immigration event, Starmer said border controls were a “foundational” part of governing, separate from other changes that were needed.
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This week, it was confirmed 20,000 people crossed the Channel in small ships since the new government came into power. Labor said the larger number of calm autumn days than last year is to blame.
In a speech held at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire after carrying the slogan “plan for change”, the prime minister sought to strike the best note, saying Britain was “broken but not without repair” and was still “doing great”.
Aiming for the highest brought a great risk, he said, but added: “We embrace the risk … Because if there was no danger, if there was no resistance, no obstacles or obstacles for us to overcome, the future would be as sure as night. a sign that we were not serious about delivering real change.”
Starmer denied the speech – which was branded an “emergency reset” by the Conservative party leader, Kemi Badenoch – represented a change of policy, saying he was “doubling down on our national missions” which “remained robust” when first announced two years ago.
Responding to the speech, Badenoch said the reset showed that Labor was “ready for government” and that “expensive energy decarbonisation plans” were in the water, adding: “This relaunch is a matter of government that cannot hide. It does not know what it is doing.”
The Liberal Democrat leader, Ed Davey, said Starmer was “simply moving on” and described the lack of a target for GP appointments as “worrying”, while the Reform leader, Nigel Farage, criticized the lack of a target on immigration.