British Prime Minister, Labour Party Keir Starmerwarned on Tuesday that the government’s general budget, scheduled for October 31, will be “painful” because of the decisions “unpopular” that the Executive must adopt to grow the economy.
In a speech delivered today in the gardens of Downing Street -seat of the Executive-, the content of which had been partially advanced this Sunday by local media, Starmer promised that he would focus on the wealth creation and in national economic growth, even if, to achieve this, it will be necessary to take “tough measures”.
The Labour leader said his executive would make “decisions that are not going to be popular if it benefits the country in the long term” and warned that the country’s finances “will have to get worse before they get better”.
Some of these controversial measures include withdrawal of an aid grant to meet winter energy bills for pensioners who are in a better economic situation, a move that Starmer says “must be adopted” and justifies by saying that “it is costing the country a fortune” and is not sustainable if he wants to grow the economy.
The politician blamed the Tories for “chaos and ruin” which they left in the public coffers and for which there is no quick remedy.
“We have inherited not only a huge economic black hole of 22 billion pounds (26 billion euros) but a black hole in society and that is why we have adopted measures to do things differently,” he stressed.
He also said that change would not happen “overnight”while stressing that Labour “has achieved more in seven weeks than the last government achieved in seven years”.
In his speech, Starmer also referred to the recent riots in the country and stressed that those who took part in them were able to “exploit the fractures in society after 14 years of populism and failure.”
These revolts “exposed the state of the country” and revealed “a deeply unhealthy society,” he observed.
