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Project Hopeless: Starmer ducks change challenge
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer gives a speech at the National Composites Centre at Bristol and Bath Science Park in Bristol, January 4, 2024

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer was told today to get serious about change or risk the rise of the far-right after another lacklustre attempt to spell out what he stands for.

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham said that “the country needs change and it is crying out for different choices to be made. It is now critical that workers and communities can see clearly what choices Labour is proposing.”

Urging Labour to tackle energy prices by bringing the industry into public ownership, she argued that the “hope” the Labour leader talked of “will require serious investment.”

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