Keir Starmer faces questions over cost of Labour manifesto

Keir Starmer faced new questions over how Labour would pay to fix Britain’s broken public services as he vowed to “turn the page for ever” on held-back potential and to end political “pantomime” during the party’s manifesto launch.leader said he saw “potential held back” everywhere he went as a result of a lack of housing, the cost of living crisis, low wages and inadequate healthcare for children.

“Delivering genuine change will almost certainly also require putting actual resources on the table,” he said. “Labour’s manifesto offers no indication that there is a plan for where the money would come from to finance this.” The pared-back manifesto focused on the party’s five missions of economic growth, clean energy, halving crime, reforming childcare and education and building an NHS for the future.

“It’s not about rabbits out of a hat, not about pantomime. I’m running as the candidate to be prime minister, not to run the circus.” Starmer pledged to build 1.5m new homes and reform the planning system, which he said acts as a “major brake on economic growth”, and reiterated Labour’s plan to create a state-owned, clean-energy generation firm Great British Energy, backed by £8.3bn over five years.

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