Keir Starmer speech LIVE: Watch Labour leader set out plans to deliver 'decade of national renewal'

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Sir Keir Starmer will give his first speech of the year this morning, after Rishi Sunak laid out his objectives for 2023 on Wednesday.

The Labour leader will say his party will deliver a “decade of national renewal” if it comes to power in the next election, currently scheduled for 2025.

In his first speech of 2023, the Labour leader is expected to promise an end to the “sticking plaster politics” in Westminster, with “a new way of governing” for the future.

Sir Keir will pledge to create the “sort of hope you can build your future around”.

He will say: “That’s why showing how we can change the country is so important this year. We can give people a sense of possibility again, show light at the end of the tunnel.”

But the Labour leader is also expected to make clear that his pledges should not “be taken as code for Labour getting its big government chequebook out again”.

He will add: “Of course, investment is required – I can see the damage the Tories have done to our public services as plainly as anyone.

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We need a general election but we also need labour to step up and work for the British people. No lies no bull and definitely no corruption. Pay the nurses what they deserve and bring our boarders back under control. So come on labour don’t let us down.