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Starmer wants his government to be compared with Labour’s post-war administration

21 Sep 2024 2 minute read
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Photo Jacob King/PA Wire

Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted his government to be compared with Clement Attlee’s transformational post-war administration.

The 1945 Labour government set up the NHS and helped rebuild the UK after the devastation of the Second World War.

The Prime Minister told Labour activists he wanted his plans for the country to be viewed with the same sense of pride.

He also joked that since entering No 10 he had bonded with Larry the cat because they both had experience “chasing pests out of Downing Street”.

Strikes

At a reception at the Labour conference in Liverpool he said: “In less than 14 weeks, we’ve achieved more than the Tories did in 14 years. We’ve ended the strikes in the NHS so our doctors are back in the surgeries, carrying out operations, getting waiting lists down.

“We’ve set up a national wealth fund to get the investment we need into our country. We have launched GB Energy, that publicly owned company.

“We talked about this for years, now we are doing it, to generate the next generation of clean power.

“We have begun to end no-fault evictions.

“We’ve reformed planning, we’ve got rid of the ban on onshore wind, we are moving ahead with solar.

“Buses across the country will be better regulated, with fares and routes regulated by local people and railways are coming back into public ownership.”

He added that Labour had a “10-year plan for the NHS so we get it back on its feet and fit for the future so that people will, in years to come, look back with the same pride at the 2024 Labour Government as they do the 1945 Labour government”.

The Government was also carrying out “the biggest levelling-up of workers’ rights in a generation”.

Sir Keir told the reception: “I’ve been getting to know Larry the cat and bonding with him. We’ve realised we’ve both spent 14 years chasing pests out of Downing Street.”

And in a reference to the protester who disrupted his conference speech last year he added: “A little warning: stay off the glitter. It is now treason to throw glitter on me.

“I know we are short of prison places, we do have one or two in the Tower.”


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David
David
13 days ago

Would Clement Attlee have stopped Winter Fuel Payments for pensioners?

Owain Morgan
Owain Morgan
13 days ago
Reply to  David

Clement Atlee? No. Earl Atlee? The Jury’s still out on that one.

Richard Davies
Richard Davies
13 days ago

When I read the title of this article I had to check the date and was relieved to see I hadn’t been in a coma for 192 days and isn’t 1 April!

Attlee and Bevan are giants that will be remembered for many, many generations to come, mr keir starmer won’t even register a footnote of history in comparison!

Áile
Áile
13 days ago

From what I have read, they seem more like Britain’s pre-war administration

Why vote
Why vote
12 days ago

This man wants his place in history, his statue in trafalgar square, he bigs himself up constantly, rebuilding the foundations, saving the economy, changing Britain for the better, on his white horse with lance in hand on a personal crusade, he should be careful he will fall off and the thud of him hitting the ground will resonate for decades with the poor peasants having to pay to clean up his mess, sounds familiar.

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
12 days ago

Post 2nd world war rationing was worse than during the war, he is a dumb shifty lawyer like most of them…Stay calm and tell sh*t from Shinola

Last edited 12 days ago by Mab Meirion
John Ellis
John Ellis
12 days ago

‘Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted his government to be compared with Clement Attlee’s …’

Perhaps he’s recalling the combination of popular policy focused on the needs and preoccupations of ordinary Brits coupled with soundbites of explicit robust British patriotism, as exemplified by, for instance, Ernie Bevin?

That does seem to me to be his style – and, of course, a major point of difference between him and the ethos previously nurtured by Jeremy Corbyn.

Last edited 12 days ago by John Ellis
Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
12 days ago

Red Sonia says bribery and corruption are a part of politics…

Not quite, but that is the inference…

Mab Meirion
Mab Meirion
12 days ago
Reply to  Mab Meirion

For six years between war’s end and Attlee’s removal the country as a whole experienced the very worst of rationing…

‘They’ rely on an uneducated population addicted to several highly taxable (or should be) harmful products mostly derived from the industry of slavery and the fantastic amoral imagination of the scientific community, funnily enough…

Last edited 12 days ago by Mab Meirion
Richard Davies
Richard Davies
12 days ago
Reply to  Mab Meirion

During that time of rationing the population was far, far fitter and healthier than the population today.

Given the over-abundance and levels of waste, it might be a good thing for the country to restore some level of rationing (just not as restrictive as the ’40s & ’50s).

Steve Woods
Steve Woods
12 days ago

You ain’t no Clement Attlee, bruv!

Welsh Patriot
Welsh Patriot
12 days ago

“Starmer wants his government to be compared with Labour’s post-war administration”
Did Clem Attlee also wear designers glasses and suits given to him a Waheed Alli (Baron Alli) the billionaire TV mogul?

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