Keir Starmer's 'blueprint' for government
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4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
It's part of what Sir Keir Starmer called radical plans and a fundamental remodelling of our broken political system. His plans include replacing the House of Lords, banning most MPs from having a second job, and moving 50,000 civil servants out of the capital.
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson breaks down Labour's plans with our political correspondent Joe Pike.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Philly Beaumont
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| 0:02.0 | I keep feeling dizzy. |
| 0:04.9 | I'm getting migraines more often. |
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| 0:24.3 | Julia, how do you spell vertebrae? Oh, just tight pain in the neck. Thanks to all of you for coming |
| 0:33.5 | this morning. I can see so many faces here. It's fantastic to be back at Leeds University |
| 0:39.3 | where I spent three happy years. The man Boris Johnson called Captain Hindsight now has |
| 0:45.4 | both eyes on the future. Labour will rebuild trust by reforming the centre of government, |
| 0:51.0 | cleaning up sleighs, nourishing the relationship between central government |
| 0:56.0 | and the devolved authorities. |
| 0:58.3 | Kirstarmer knows that as we edge ever closer to an election, that Labour needs to flesh out |
| 1:02.8 | their policy proposal to define themselves as, well, more than simply, not the Tories. |
| 1:08.4 | And replacing the unelected House of Lords with a new, smaller, democratically elected |
| 1:13.6 | second chamber. |
| 1:15.3 | Not only less expensive, but also representing the regions and nations of the United Kingdom. |
| 1:21.6 | Entitled a New Britain, it certainly contained plenty of eye-catching proposals, |
| 1:26.0 | not least of which the abolition of the Lords, |
| 1:28.1 | but also decentralising, devolving more powers, barring MPs for most second jobs, |
| 1:34.3 | and moving 50,000 Whitehall civil servants to the regions. Now, there are just a couple of problems |
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